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41 care of our mallet Shippes: This fight continued about fower howers til it was neere night, in the which fight, thanks be to God, there was laine o fewe perons of our Englih fleete as I thinke the like conflict hath not beene performed with o little loe of men: What harme befell the Spaniards in their fleete I leaue to your iudgements. Yet our eyes can witnee their Shippes were ore beaten and raked thorough, whereby there was uch falling backe and lying by the Lee to toppe their leakes, as ome of them were driuen to hate awaye, and rather to runne on hore to aue themelues then incke in the Sea: Beides within two howers after our fight with them, wee aw one of their great Shippes on fire which burnt into the Sea, and all the Sterne of another of their Shippes blowen vp: And in the morning a Shippe of our fleete was runne o neere the land, that to double the Cape current hee mut of neceitie tacke about & fall in the wake of the enemie, which