Thomas Deloney

Thomas Deloney (c. 1543–1600) was a silk-weaver of Norwich and London who became one of the best-known ballad-writers of Elizabethan England, and later wrote prose tales of the clothing trades. His ballads were collected in The Garland of Good Will.

The poem here is the ballad on the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the capture of the great galleass, signed T. D. in the broadside text, as printed in C. H. Firth's Naval Songs and Ballads (Navy Records Society, 1908).