Winning of Cales, The

DESCRIPTION: "Long the proud Spaniards had vaunted to conquer us, Threatening our country with fire and sword," but now the Earl of Essex has taken the war to them. From Plymouth the English sail to Cales (Cadiz) and do great damage to the Spanish fleet
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1750 (Percy Folio)
KEYWORDS: war navy Spain nobility
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Jun 21, 1596 - Essex's raid on Cadiz ("Cales")
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Hales/Furnival-BishopPercysFolioManuscript, volume III, pp. 453-456, "Winninge of Cales" (1 text)
Percy/Wheatley-ReliquesOfAncientEnglishPoetry II, pp. 243-246, "The Winning of Cales" (1 text)
Rimbault-Musical IllustrationsOfBishopPercysReliques XXX, p. 71, "The Winning of Cales" (1 partial text, 1 tune)
Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs 9, "The Winning of Cales" (1 text)
MANUSCRIPT: {MSPercyFolio}, The Percy Folio, London, British Library, MS. Additional 27879, page 504
Roud #V22429
NOTES [42 words]: There is anothier piece in the Percy Folio, "Cales Voyage" (Hales/Furnival-BishopPercysFolioManuscript, volume II, pp. 144-146; MSPercyFolio, p. 234), but I can't see that they have anything in common except the misuse of the name "Cales" for "Cadiz." - RBW
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