Spain, Rumor, and Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Jacobean England - The Palatine Match, Cleves, and the Armada Scares of 1612-1613 and 1614

This study explores two bizarre episodes in England’s relations with Spain under James I when for a time the government believed a new Spanish armada was about to descend on the country and hurriedly took such defensive measures as disarming Catholic recusants and mustering the nation’s militia.