Philip concluded Spain must build its own ships and cannon rather than hire them

Evidence

After talking to some of his captains Philip saw more clearly that it was not just a question of hiring ships. He would have to build his own if he wanted sound ones. And he would have to expand Spanish production of cannon. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 877

Categorization

• XREF: Directly sets up the reader’s interest in the retaliatory English Armada of the following year and why it faced a rebuilt, improved Spanish fleet.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 877