and statements seems to indicate that the naval portion of the fleet was composed and officered as follows: —

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Ships. Tons. Guns. Men. Commanders. Military Officers.

Mere Honour^[1] Due Repulse^[2] Warspite Garland Defiance Mary Rose St. Matthew St. Andrew Rainbow Bonaventure Dreadnought Swiftsure Antelope^[3] Nonpareil^[4] Foresight Tremontana Moon Lion Hope^[5]

Earl of Essex. Sir Robt. Mansell, Capt.

Lord Thos. Howard, V.-A. — Middleton, Capt.

Sir Walter Ralegh, R.-A. Sir Arthur Gorges, Capt.

800 400 41

50

700 350

29

600 300

Henry, Earl of Southampton.^[6]

Lord Mountjoy. Sir Fras. Vere. Sir Geo. Carew.^[7]

700 300 45 (?)

Sir Amyas Preston, Capt. 250 250 500 400 250 250 200 200 160 250 160 70 40 250 250 46 500 G00 1000 900 500 GO0 400 400 350 500 300 John Wynter, Capt. 39 (?) 48 — Throckmorton, Capt. Sir Wm. Monson, Capt. Sir Wm. Harvey, Capt. Sir Wm. Brooke, Capt. 50 26 47 41 Sir Gelly Meyrick,^[8] Capt. 38 41 Sir Thos. Vavasour, Capt. Sir Rich. Leveson, Capt. 56 Carew Reynell,^[9] Capt. 37 — Fenner, Capt. 140 60 500 600 21 Edwd. Mitchelburne, Capt. 60 48 (?)

"Some of her Majesty's small pinnaces" also "attended the fleet."^[10]

To the whole force was added a Dutch squadron of ten men-of-war under the command of Admiral van Duijvenvoorde.

The fleet sailed on July 9th, 1597, from Plymouth, but it met

1 Essex afterwards shifted his flag to the Due Repulse.

2 Howard afterwards shifted his flag to the Lion, which went out with stores after the main fleet had sailed.

3 Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton, seems to have gone as a military volunteer, although in Monson's and Gorges's lists he appears as commanding the Garland. He was attacked and imprisoned for complicity with Essex, but re-created Earl in 1603, and made a K.G. He died in 1624.

4 In Gorges's and Monson's lists, Carew figures as commanding the St. Matthew. He may have held naval as well as military command.

5 Son of Rowland Meyrick, Bp. of Bangor, 1559-63; had been knighted for services at Cadiz. He was executed in 1600 for complicity with Essex.

6 Sir John Gilbert, who did not sail, seems to have been originally appointed to the Antelope.

7 Sir Thos. Vavasour seems to have been originally appointed to the Nonpareil.

8 Fifth son of Rich. Reynell, of East Ogwell, was knighted in 1599 for services in Ireland, and died in 1624.

9 Sir Rich. Leveson seems to have been originally appointed to the Hope.