A libell of Spanish lies

Full title: A libell of Spanish lies: found at the Sacke of Cales, discoursing the fight in the West Indies, twixt the English Navie being fourteene Ships and Pinasses, and a fleete of twentie saile of the king of Spaines, and of the death of Sir Francis Drake. With an answere briefely confuting the Spanish lies, and a short Relation of the fight according to truth, written by Henrie Savile Esquire, employed Captaine in one of her Maiesties Shippes, in the same service against the Spaniar. And also an Approbation of this discourse, by Sir Thomas Baskervile, then Generall of the English fleete in that Service: Avowing the maintenance thereof, personally in Armes against Don Bernaldino, if hee shall take exceptions to that which is heere set downe, Touching the fight twixt both Navies, or justifie that which he hath most falsely reported in his vaine Printed letter.

8vo. pp. [8], 1-7, [1], 8-47. Signatures: A-G4. Later cloth. Includes large wood engraving of an armillary sphere on p. [4], facsimile headpieces, initials, cuts, and Caslon old-face type.

Reprint edited by John Payne Collier of a work originally printed in London by John Windet in 1569 (STC 6551) relating mainly to the deaths of Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins. Limited, according to Collier, to 25 copies. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, p. 430; II, A74.

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