A libell of Spanish lies
Subtitle: found at the sacke of Cales, discoursing the fight in the West Indies, twixt the English nauie 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 the truth
By: written by Henrie Sauile Esquire, employed Captaine in one of her Majesties shippes, in the same seruice against the Spaniard : and also an approbation of this discourse, by Sir Thomas Baskeruile, then Generall of the English fleete in that seruice auowing 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 nauies, or iustifie that which he hath most falsely reported in his vaine printed letter
Contributors: Delgadillo de Avellaneda, Bernaldino; Baskerville, Thomas, Sir; Windet, John, -1610, printer; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Iohn Windet ...
Published: 1596
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Death and burial; Isle of Pines, Battle of the, Cuba, 1596; Personal narratives
Notes: The "libell" is a letter by Bernaldino Delgadillo de Avellaneda, printed in Spanish and English.

The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A"; from p. 8 on, even numbers are on rectos.

Issued also in a variant, with (:) instead of  numerals on p. 1-7 in gathering B.

Signatures: A-G⁴.

LC copy is the variant with numbering of p. 1-7 replaced by (:); imperfect wanting the first blank leaf, A1.

ESTC (RLIN) S109556

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 255

Sabin 77289

Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation; bookplates of: Henry Stevens, C.L.F. Robinson, and Boies Penrose.