A Prayer of thanksgiving, and for continuance of good success to her majesties Forces.  
O Lord God of Hosts, everlasting and most merciful Father, we thine unworthy creatures do yield unto thy divine Majesty all possible praise and humble thanks for thine infinite benefits, which thou hast of long time plentifully powered upon thine Handmaiden, & humble servant our Sovereign Lady the Queen, and upon her whole Realm, and us her Subjects the people of this Kingdom. And namely, O Lord, for that graciously respecting us in the merits of thy dear Son our Saviour, and by his intercession passing over and forgiving our manifold sins, thou hast this present Summer so favourably conducted the Royal Navy and Army sent to the Seas by our Gracious Queen (not for any other worldly respects, but only for defence of this Realm, and us thy people, against the mighty preparations of our Enemies threatening our ruin,) by safely directing them unto places appointed, and by strengthening the Governors and Leaders of the same with counsel and resolution, and blessing them with notable victories both by Sea and Land, whereby the insolences and pride of our Enemies, which sought our conquest and subversion, is by these late victories notably daunted, repulsed, and abased. Grant unto us (most merciful Father) the grace, with due thankfulness to acknowledge thy fatherly goodness extended upon us by the singular favour showed to thy Servant and Minister our Sovereign Lady and Queen. And for thy holy Name continue these thy wonderful blessings still upon us, to defend us against our Enemies, and bless us with thy graceful hand to the endless praise of thy holy Name, and to our lasting joy. And direct our Armies by thy providence and favourable support, to finish these late victories to the honour of our Sovereign, and safety of her Realm, that hath most carefully made the same able to overmatch her Enemies: So as the Noble men, and all others serving in the same Navy and Army under their charge may with much honour, triumph, and safety return home to their Countries, and to give thee due thanks for thy special favours marvelously showed unto them in preserving of them all this Summer time from all contagion and mortality by sword or sickness, notwithstanding their force and violence most manfully exercised against their Enemies, to the vanquishing of great numbers both by Sea & Land, and to the destruction of their most mighty Ships, that heretofore have attempted to invade this Realm, and of their Forts and Castles, and waste of their notable substances of their riches, without hurting any person that did yield, or of any women or children, or Religious persons, to whom all favour was showed that they did require. All which prosperous successes we do most justly acknowledge (O Lord) to have proceeded only from thy special favour, to whom with thy Son and holy Ghost be all honour and praise. Amen.   

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❧ Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queen's most excellent Majesty.  
Anno Domini. 1596.