every moneth,
whereof the whole summe amounteth unto an hundreth thousand quintals.

"Likewise of wine they had 147,000 pipes, sufficient also for halfe a
yeere's expedition. Of bacon, 6500 quintals. Of cheese, 3000 quintals.
Besides fish, rise, beanes, pease, oile, vinegar, etc.

"Moreover, they had 12,000 pipes of fresh water, and all other necessary
provision, as namely candles, lanternes, lampes, sailes, hempe, oxe-hides,
and lead to stop holes that should be made with the battery of gunshot.
To be short, they brought all things expedient, either for a fleete by
sea, or for an armie by land.

"This navie--as Diego Pimentelli afterward confessed--was esteemed by
the King himselfe to containe 32,000 persons, and to cost him every day
30,000 ducates.

"There were in the said navie five terzaes of Spaniards--which terzaes
the Frenchmen call regiments--under the command of five governours,
termed by the Spaniards masters of the field, and among the rest there
were many olde and expert souldiers chosen out of the garisons of
Sicilie, Naples, and Tercera. Their captaines or colonels were Diego
Pimentelli, Don Francisco de Toledo, Don Alonco de Lucon, Don Nicolas de
Isla, Don Augustin de Mexia, who had eche of them thirty-two companies
under their conduct. Besides the which companies, there were many bands
also of Castilians and Portugals, every one of which had their peculiar
governours, captaines, officers, colors, and weapons."

While this huge armament was making ready in the southern ports of the
Spanish dominions, the Duke of Parma, with almost incredible toil and
skill, collected a squadron of war-ships at Dunkirk, and a large
flotilla of other ships and of flat-bottomed boats for the transport to
England of the picked troops which were designed to be the main
instruments in subduing England. The design of the Spaniards was that
the armada should give them, at least for a time, the command of the
sea, and that it should join the squadron that Parma had collected off
Calais. Then, escorted by an overpowering naval force, Parma and his
army were to embark in their flotilla, and cross the sea to England,
where they were to be landed, together with the troops which the armada
brought from the ports of Spain.

The scheme was not dissimilar to one formed against England a little
more than two centuries afterward. As Napoleon, in 1805, waited with his
army and flotilla at Boulogne, looking for Villeneuve to drive awa