["True it is, and I avow it on my faith, her Majesty did send a ship expressly before he went to Cadiz with a message by letters charging Sir Francis Drake not to show any act of hostility, which messenger by contrary winds could never come to the place where he was, but was constrained to come home, and hearing of Sir F. Drake’s actions, her Majesty commanded the party that returned to have been punished, but that he acquitted himself by the oaths of himself and all his company.  And so unwitting yea unwilling to her Majesty those actions were committed by Sir F. Drake, for the which her Majesty is as yet greatly offended with him.”  Burghley to Andreas de Loo, 18 July, 1587.  Flanders Correspondence.’ (S.  P. Office Ms.)]

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The blaze of a hundred and fifty burning vessels
We were sold by their negligence who are now angry with us

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