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THE SPANISH ARMADA,

A.D. 1588;

OR,

THE ATTEMPT

OF

PHILIP II. AND POPE SIXTUS V.

ΤΟ

RE-ESTABLISH POPERY

IN ENGLAND.

BY THE

REV. THOMAS LATHBURY, M.A.,

AUTHOR OF "GUY FAWKES," "A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH EPISCOPACY,"
&c.

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LONDON

HARRISON AND Co., PRINTERS,

ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

PREFACE.

A VERY few words will suffice by way of preface to the present volume. The Spanish Invasion, like the Gunpowder Treason, is an event to which the Protestant reverts with feelings of the most unfeigned gratitude. In the present day, when the encroachments of Rome cannot be denied, it is desirable that such events as the Spanish Invasion and the Gunpowder Treason should be recalled to the recollection of the people. I have, in a previous work, submitted an account of the Gunpowder Treason to the public: and as a companion to that work, I now offer a narrative of the proceedings connected with the Armada.

It will be seen that I have made considerable use of the Letter to Mendoza. Dr. Lingard asserts that the letter was written by command of the Queen's ministers; but Strype and Turner, as is noticed in the volume, evidently view it as the genuine production of a Roman Catholic, as is stated in the title page. I will not undertake to say, that the letter in question was actually written by a Roman Catholic; but I am

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