Resolution of a Council of War of the English commanders, 1st August : Sir Francis Drake

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Resolution of a Council of War of the English commanders against the Spanish Armada after the defeat of the latter off Gravelines, 1st August 1588. Signed by Charles Howard, Lord Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral, George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, Lord Thomas Howard, Edmund Shefield, Lord Shefield, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Edward Hoby, Sir John Hawkins, and Captain Thomas Fenner. From the first series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I - V, (London, 1899).

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