Parma offered his defeated English enemy a command to spare his loyalties

Evidence

Parma respected a valiant foe. He sought out Sir Roger Williams where he stood at the head of the remnant of his battalion, his arm in a sling and his great plume broken, praised his soldiership and offered to find a command worthy of it where he need never fight against his co-religionists or his fellow countrymen. Williams replied courteously that if he ever served any but his Queen in future, it would be in the army of that hard-pressed champion of the Protestant cause, the Huguenot hero King Henry of Navarre. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 331

Categorization

• XREF: A rare moment of mutual chivalric respect across the Catholic-Protestant divide — vividly humanizing Parma and Williams both.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 331