Note 316 — Chapter XVIII · Guernsey Songs and Ballads.

Duc de Mydine—The Duke of Medina-Sidonia, leader of the Spanish Armada, who, when the great hulk Satana and a galleon of Portugal were attacked by the Triumph and some other vessels, on the flag-ship, (the St. Martin) tried to repel Lord Howard on the Ark Royal and other men-of-war, and thence arose the hottest conflict of the day. He had previously, when Don Pedro de Valdez, commander of the Andelusian squadron,—having got his foremast carried away close to the deck,—lay crippled and helpless, calmly fired a gun to collect his scattered ships, and abandoned Valdez to his fate.… The next day Valdez surrendered to the Revenge.—Motley’s Netherlands, Vol. II., pp. 456-7.