



Produced by Al Haines









[Frontispiece: ROBERT DEVEREUX, SECOND EARL OF ESSEX.  (_After a
contemporary portrait in the collection of the Earl of Verulam._)]




  THE YEAR AFTER
  THE ARMADA

  AND OTHER HISTORICAL STUDIES
  BY MARTIN A. S. HUME, F.R.HIST.S.
  EDITOR OF THE CALENDAR OF SPANISH STATE
  PAPERS OF ELIZABETH (PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE)
  AUTHOR OF "THE COURTSHIPS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH," ETC.



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  _SECOND EDITION_



  "'There is no book so bad,' said the bachelor, 'but that
  something good may be found in it.'  'There is no doubt of that,'
  replied Don Quixote."--_Don Quixote_, pt. ii.



  LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN
  PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1896




  _All rights reserved._




  To
  MY MOTHER.




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PREFACE.

Circumstances have led me to follow the course of modern history into
somewhat unfrequented channels, and in the pursuit of my main object it
is occasionally my good fortune to come across a piece of unused or
unfamiliar contemporary information--some faded manuscript or forgotten
newsletter--which seems to throw fresh light upon an important period
or an interesting personality of the past.  It is true that in some
cases the matters recounted are not of any great historical
significance, but even then there is generally some quaint glimpse to
be caught of bygone manners or events which redeems the document from
worthlessness.  From such treasure-trove as this, and from other
sources which have generally been overlooked or neglected by English
historians, the studies contained in the present book have been drawn;
and it is hoped that some fresh knowledge as well as amusement may be
gained from them.

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If the reader is only half as much interested in perusing as I have
been in writing them, I shall consider myself very fortunate.

Some of the studies have already appeared in Magazines, but the
principal portion of the book is now printed for the first time.

MARTIN A. S. HUME.

LONDON, _September_, 1896.



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CONTENTS.


THE YEAR AFTER THE ARMADA

JULIAN ROMERO--SWASHBUCKLER

THE COMING OF PHILIP THE PRUDENT

THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPANISH ARMADA

A FIGHT AGAINST FINERY

A PALACE IN THE STRAND

THE EXORCISM OF CHARLES THE BEWITCHED

A SPRIG OF THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA

THE JOURNAL OF RICHARD BERE

Index




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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE EARL OF ESSEX... _Frontispiece_
  (_After a contemporary portrait in the collection
  of the Earl of Verulam._)

PHILIP AND MARY
  (_After the painting by Antonio Mor._)

QUEVEDO
  (_After the portrait by Velasquez, at Apsley House._)

CHARLES II. OF SPAIN
  (_After the portrait by Claudio Coello,
  at the Madrid Musco._)

PHILIP IV. OF SPAIN
  (_After the portrait by Velasquez, in the National Gallery._)




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THE YEAR AFTER THE ARMADA.

_THE COUNTER-ARMADA OF 1589_.[1]

On the night of Sunday, the 28th of July, 1588, the great Armada was
huddled, all demoralised and perplexed, in Calais roads.  Only a week
before the proudest fleet that ever rode the seas laughed in derision
at the puny vessels that alone stood between it and victory over the
heretic Queen and her pirate countrymen, who for years had plundered
and insulted with impunity the most powerful sovereign in Europe.
Gilded prows and fluttering pennons, great towering hulls which seemed
to defy destruction, the fervid approbation of all Latin Christendom,
and the assurance of Divine protection, combined to produce in the men
of the Armada absolute confidence in an easy conquest.  But six {4}
days of desultory fighting in the Channel had opened their eyes to
facts thitherto undreamed of.  Handy ships