A libell of Spanish lies: : found at the sacke of Cales, discoursing the fight in the West Indies, twixt the English nauie being fourteene ships and pinasses, and a fleete of twentie saile of the king of Spaines, and of the death of Sir Francis Drake. : With an answere briefely confuting the Spanish lies, and a short relation of the fight according to truth
A 1596 London pamphlet printed by John Windet for Captain Henry Savile, a plain news account of the English fleet's fight with Spanish ships in the West Indies and the death of Sir Francis Drake. The pictures are four decorative printed headpieces or tailpieces, with the first three showing a crowned heraldic rose shield flanked by putti and scrolling foliage, and the last showing a pair of winged creatures meeting over a central figure. A designer might take the symmetrical strapwork borders and the centred crest as models for framing a short text block.
