The Armada painting at Bratoft Church, Lincolnshire, with England, Scotland, Ireland and France in the four corners. It commemorates England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 (helped by the weather).
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detail of bottom right
hand corner (40kB),
details of ship
at left (40kB),
detail of dragon
head and shipwrecks (40kB).
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The poem reads:
Spaine's proud Armado with great strength and power
Great Britain's state came gapeing to devour,
This Dragon's guts, like Pharaos scattered hoast,
Lay splitt and drowned upon the Irish coast.
For of eight score save too ships sent from Spaine
But twenty-five scarce sound return'd again.
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