Sales catalogue 449: Maggs Bros

Date:
1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/28
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 449: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    397 SPANISH ARMADA 1588 (DEFEAT OF). ARMADA DOCUMENT SIGNED BY THE PRINCIPAL MEMBERS OF THE. ENGLISH COUNCIL OF WAR, LORD HIGH ADMIRAL HOWARD, ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM WYNTER, ADMIRAL SIR JOHN HAWKINS, AND WILLIAM HOLSTOCK, BEING A WARRANT IN RESPECT. OF AN ENGLISH SHIP SENT AGAINST THE SPANISH FLEET. -. Contained on 1 page, folio. 1588. (SEE. ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XCVIIL.). - £85 An original Armada document, bearing the very rare signature of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL HOWARD and ADMIRALS WYNTER and HAWKINS, who with Holstock, formed the principal members of the Council of war. . It provides for payment to John Young, captain of the ship “ John of Chechester,”’ the wages, victuals, etc., for himself and 45 men, for the space of three months from 3rd June to 3rd September, 1588, amounting in all’ to 4160-17-6. Morant in his ‘‘ Historical Account of the Spanish Armada,” published in 1739, makes special mention of the ship, as a Coasting Vessel of 70 tons, carrying 50 men under the command of John Young. Evidently during its various engagements with the Spanish fleet the ship lost five men of its complement. The dates stated in the document cover the principal’ period of the Armada, which sailed from Lisbon on 19 May, 1588, entered the English Channel on 19 July, and from the 21 july to September was engaged in a series of disastrous conflicts, the result being that only 54 vessels survived to reach Spain again, and those in a shattered condition. * * * The ‘‘ Invincible ’’ Armada comprised 130 large ships manned by over 8,000 sailors, and carried 19,000 soldiers, besides volunteers, monks, and others; it also had more than 2,000 cannon The English fleet under Lord Howard comprised only 80 small ships, many of which were tiny coasting vessels.