";s:4:"text";s:5156:"I would some were of your mind. In 1596, when another Spanish invasion was feared, Howard was again appointed to defend England.
You could not be signed in, please check and try again.You could not be signed in, please check and try again. (c. 1510–73).Howard was a younger son of Thomas, 2nd duke of Norfolk, who died in 1524. William Bourne dedicated his 1578 book Inventions or Devices. He gained some displeasure by protecting the Princess Elizabeth, and on her succession in 1558 he was in high favour. A kingdom is a great wager...Some made little account of the Spanish force by sea; but I do warrant you, all the world never saw such a force as theirs was; and some Spaniards that we have taken, that were in the fight at The day after he wrote to Burghley: "Sickness and mortality begins wonderfully to grow amongst us; and it is a most pitiful sight to see...how the men, having no place to receive them into here, die in the streets. Few details of Charles Howard's early life are known. by Lord Howard of Effingham and by Sir Richard Grenville in the Elizabethan campaigns of sea expansion that culminated in the Armada, as recounted in the excellent and most readable Sir Francis Drake by George Malcolm THOMPSON (Book Club Associates 1972). Sir, the captains in her Majesty's ships have behaved themselves most bravely and like men.On 29 July Howard wrote to Walsingham: "Their force is wonderful great and strong; and yet we pluck their feathers by little and little. He was great‐uncle to Princess Elizabeth. consiste of 120 saile whereof there are 4 g[alleasses?] I am driven myself, of force, to come a-land, to see them bestowed in some lodging; and the best I can get is barns and such outhouses; and the relief is small that I can provide for them here. But there shall be nothing either neglected or unhazarded, that may work their overthrow. You know whom I mean.The next day he wrote again to Walsingham that if there was going to be a "surcease of arms" then "it shall be but folly and to no purpose for me to lie here" as if he was in arms whilst Elizabeth was negotiating peace it would make him "a jest to many, and they have reason".On 1 February Howard wrote to Walsingham: "It doth appear no less by your letter but that we may assure ourselves that Scotland is the mark which they shoot at to offend us, and therefore most necessary to provide for that...for my own part, had rather be drawn in pieces with wild horses than that they should pass through Scotland and I lie here".I doubt not but to make her Majesty a good account of anything that shall be done by the Spanish forces, and I will make him wish his galleys at home again. Very Necessary for all Generalles and Captaines, as wel by Sea as by Land to Howard and Robert Norman dedicated to Howard his 1584 translations of two Dutch guides to North Sea coastlines. His son Charles commanded the fleet against the Spanish Armada.PRINTED FROM OXFORD REFERENCE (www.oxfordreference.com).