f Warwick, elder brother to Leicester.]

[Footnote 33: NOTE GO, p. 276. This action of Sir Richard Greenville is
so singular as to merit a more particular relation. He was engaged alone
with the whole Spanish fleet of fifty-three sail, which had ten thousand
men on board; and from the time the fight began, which was about three
in the afternoon, to the break of day next morning, he repulsed the
enemy fifteen times, though they continually shifted their vessels,
and hoarded with fresh men. In the beginning of the action he himself
received a wound; but he continued doing his duty above deck till
eleven at night, when receiving a fresh wound, he was carried down to be
dressed. During this operation, he received a shot in the head, and the
surgeon was killed by his side. The English began now to want powder.
All their small arms were broken or become useless. Of their number,
which were but a hundred and three at first, forty were killed, and
almost all the rest wounded. Their masts were beat overboard, their
tackle cut in pieces, and nothing but a hulk left, unable to move one
way or other. In this situation, Sir Richard proposed to the ship's
company, to trust to the mercy of God, not to that of the Spaniards, and
to destroy the ship with themselves, rather than yield to the enemy.
The master gunner, and many of the seamen, agreed to this desperate
resolution; but others opposed it and obliged Greenville to surrender
himself prisoner. He died a few days after; and his last words were,
"Here die I, Richard Greenville, with a joyful and quiet mind; for that
I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, fighting for his
country, queen, religion, and honor; my soul willingly departing from
this body, leaving behind the lasting fame of having behaved as every
valiant soldier is in his duty bound to do." The Spaniards lost in this
sharp, though unequal action, four ships, and about a thousand men; and
Greenville's vessel perished soon after, with two hundred Spaniards in
her. Hacklyt's Voyages, vol. iii. part 2, p. 169. Camden, p. 565.]

[Footnote 34: NOTE HH, p. 294. It is usual for the speaker to disqualify
himself for the office; but the reasons employed by this speaker are so
singular that they may be worth transcribing. "My estate," said he, "is
nothing correspondent for the maintenance of this dignity, for my father
dying left me a younger brother, and nothing to me but my bare annuity.
Then growing to man's es