In going into the Groyne we lost a number of brave men in dislodging. Then at the least 2,000 took their course, some for England, some for France. There we took our sickness, partly by the hot winds but chiefly by the old clothes and baggage of those which returned with the Duke of Medina out of the journey of England. There we lost many a day, in the which time the enemy armed and placed his forces where he thought most necessariest, chiefly in Lisbon.

Richard Bruce Wernham, The Expedition of Sir John …, loc. 941