English war in the Netherlands cost 250,000 pounds in two years with little gain

Evidence

In two years the war cost her more than two hundred and fifty thousand pounds and the lives of some thousands of sturdy yeomen and gallant gentlemen, among them her favourite Philip Sidney, and all its effort barely seemed to slow the inexorable Spanish advance. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 73

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete cost figures that anchor the Elizabethan war economy - useful baseline for the Armada campaign budgeting.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 73