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Using an account which had previously been unrecognized among the Yelverton MSS, in the British Library, this article adds new detail to our understanding of the Cadiz expedition of 1596. Written from aboard the earl of Essex's flagship, Due Repulse, the new account of the voyage provides a counterpoint to the well-known narrative written by Dr. Marbeck from aboard the lord admiral's ship, Ark Royal. This article also describes an apparent reconnaissance map of Cadiz and considers some of the intelligence-gathering which paved the way for Anglo-Dutch forces to attack the city.

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. The capture of Cadiz in was a spectacular but short-lived success in England 's war against Spain. More enduring were the many partisan accounts of the victory, which were prepared and disseminated by various officers from the expedition. This article traces these rival narratives and explores their circulation in manuscript form, including the earl of Essex's notorious ' True relacion '. Such documents illustrate the increasingly bitter divisions of late Elizabethan politics. The stories of Cadiz gained a fresh currency when England and Spain went to war again in the s, placing a heavy burden of expectation on the government of Charles I.