eche person in the whole fleete halfe a quintall every moneth; whereof the whole summe amounteth unto an hundreth thousand quintals.
"Likewise of wine they had 147 thousand pipes, sufficient also for halfe a yeeres expedition. Of bacon 6500 quintals. Of cheese three thousand quintals. Besides fish, rise, beanes, pease, oile, vinegar, &c.
"Moreover they had 12000 pipes of freshwater, and all other necessary provision, as namely candles, lanternes, lampes, sailes, hempe, oxe-hides and lead to stop holes that should be made with the battery of gunshot. To be short, they brought all things expedient, either for a fleete by sea, or for an armie by land.
"This Navie (as Diego Pimentelli afterward confessed) was esteemed by the king himselfe to containe 32000 persons, and to cost him every day 30 thousand ducates.
"There were in the said navie five terzaes of Spaniards (which terzaes the Frenchmen call regiments), under the command of five governours, termed by the Spaniards masters of the field, and amongst the rest there were many olde and expert souldiers chosen out of the garisons of Sicilie, Naples, and Terçera. Their captaines or colonels were Diego Pimentelli, Don Francisco de Toledo, Don Alonço de Luçon, Don Nicolas de Isla, Don
