Each morning at sunrise the ship-boys, according to custom, will sing 'Good Morrow' at the foot of the mainmast, and at sunset the 'Ave Maria.' Since bad weather may interrupt the communications the watchword is laid down for each day in the week: Sunday, Jesus; the days succeeding, the Holy Ghost, the Holy Trinity, Santiago, the Angels, All Saints, and Our Lady."* -- * Spanish Story of the Armada, pp.

27, 28.
-- "God and one," it has been said, "make a majority." But in this case God was not on the side of the pious and incompetent Medina Sidonia.
It was not till this same year 1892, after Freeman's death, that the "Calendar of Letters and State Papers relative to English affairs preserved principally in the Archives of Simancas" began to be published in England by the Master of the Rolls.

Translated by an eminent scholar, Mr.Martin Hume, and printed in a book, they could have been read by Freeman himself, and can be read by any one who cares to undertake the task.

They will at least give some idea of the enormous labour undergone by Froude in his several sojourns at Simancas.

I cannot profess to have instituted a systematic comparison, but a few specimens selected at random show that Froude summarised fairly the documents with which he dealt.