[1] [2] Then were sent from the king of Spaine diuerse lords of his priuie councell vnto the said lord Ho|ward, to excuse the matter for that he came not ac|cording to his promise, requiring them, that sith the time of the yeare to make warre was past, it might please them to breake vp their campe, and to diuide themselues abroad into the townes and villages of his realme till the spring time of the yeare, that they might then go forward with their first pretended en|terprise. The lord Howard shewed well in words that the Englishmen could not thinke well of the king of Spaines fained excuses, and vnprofitable de [...]aies, to his small honor & their great hinderance & losse, hauing spent the king their maister so much treasure, and doone so little hurt to his aduersaries. The Spaniards gaue faire words; and so in courte|ous maner departed.