Their bulk exposed them the more to the fire of the enemy; while their cannon, placed too high, shot over the heads of the English.

The alarm having now reached, the coast of England, the nobility and gentry hastened out, with their vessels from every harbor, and reenforced the admiral.

The earls of Oxford, Northumberland, and Cumberland, Sir Thomas Cecil, Sir Robert Cecil, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas Vavasor, Sir Thomas Gerrard, Sir Charles Blount, with many others, distinguished themselves by this generous and disinterested service of their country.

The English fleet, after the conjunction of those ships, amounted to a hundred and forty sail.
The armada had now reached Calais, and cast anchor before that place, in expectation that the duke of Parma, who had gotten intelligence of their approach, would put to sea and join his forces to them.

The English admiral practised here a successful stratagem upon the Spaniards.