Catalogue description EXPEDITION to CADIZ.

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Title: EXPEDITION to CADIZ.
Description:

On the 3rd of June 1596 the Earl of Essex and the Admiral sailed with 144 vessels from Plymouth. Lord Thomas Howard, the Admiral, was in The Flaner de la Merr, Sir Walter Raleigh in The Warspright, Sir Robert Southwell in The Lyon, and Sir George Carewe in The Mary Rose, &c.

 

On the 19th they fell in with a bark of Waterford, and learned there were about 60 great ships in Cales (Cadiz), many of which were laden with merchandise for the Indies. They arrived before Cales on Sunday [the 20th], and made an attack on the Spanish fleet. Fifty-seven great ships were taken or burned, and the port of Pontale was captured. An attack was then made on the town by the Earl of Essex, the General, assisted by the Lord Marshal, the Earl of Sussex, and Sir George Carewe. The castle surrendered on the 22nd.

 

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II. "The names of those knighted on Monday the 22nd of June 1596, the day Cales was taken."

 

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Date: 22 June 1596
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: MS 612, p. 89
Language: English
Physical description: 4 pages + 5 pages.
Unpublished finding aids:

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. III, document 242.

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