That
although the generality were carried away with some doubt of the said preparations,
yet men of judgment here knowing the weakness of Spain by sea, so long as
he is divided from his forces in the Low Countries, did never make account
of those bruits.
That to show how little we here did fear them, Sir Francis Drake is sent
to lie upon that coast, with thirty sails of ships, and hath, [?] his
repair thither, entered into the harbour of Cales [Cadiz], and fired thirty
of great ships and sunk two galleys, and doubteth not to stay there all
this summer, notwithstanding the great preparations that are there made.
……
That her Majesty doth accept very well of his advertisements and prayeth
him that he will continue in doing good offices between her and the Duke.
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