expedition against Cadiz were in progress before C. Mais fell. After the fall of Calais, they were hastened to such good efikct that the fleet sailed about six weeks hter. The ships of her majesty engaged in this importmt adventure were--

Shim. T(ms. Men. Gs. Commanders. j The Lord High A,hniral, J.int-A,hnl. Ark Royal SO0 400 55 ' U 'aptain Amyas Presto. [ Robert, Earl of Essex, Joint-Admiral. Repulse. 700 350 50 U 'aptsin William Monaon. 3I're thmour . 400 41 Lord Thomas Howard, Vice-Admiral. l[rspite ;D 300 29 Sir Walter llalegh, Rear-Admiral. Lion . 500 250 { 60 Sir Rohert Soutl'well. Rainbow 500 250 26 Sir Francis Vere3 .kbnlareil 500 230 ' 56 Sir Robert Dudley. s lnguard 500 250 31 Sir J-hn Wingfe]ld. Mary Rose 600 250 39 Sir George Carew3 Dreadnotgbt 400 200 41 Alexander Clifibn13 Sw(ftsure 400 2o0 41 Roert Crosse3 Quittance 200 los 25 Sir George Gifib,l. Tremonts,s. 1t0 70 21 -- King.

with probably three more, making seventeen in all. s With these, according to Speed, there were associated three vessels behmging to the Lord High Admiral, twenty-four belonging to the StLtes- General, and armed merchantmeu md victuallets sufficient to bring up the total munber of sail to 150. I)e Jonge says that eighteen of the twenty-four Dutch vessels were of from 200 to 400 tons burden, and cart'led from sixteen to twenty-four guns apiece, with from 100

For the account of the expedition, Mtmson, Hakluyt, Purehas, Camden, the Appendix to Harris's Collection, Speed, Stow, and IISS. in the Cottonian Library, as well as various State Fapens have been consultal.

Son of GeofiYey de Vote, and grandson of the fifteenth Earl of Oxford. Itc wrote 'The Commentaries of Sir F. Yere' (published in 1(;57). Dying in 160t% he was burial at Westminster. s Son of Robert, Earl of Leicester, hy Douglas Howard, sister of the Lord High Admiral. He married as his third wife a daughter of Sir Robet Southwell. His great nautical work, ' L'Arcano del Mare,' was written while he was serving the Grand Duke of Tuscany, with whom he took refige upon failing to establish his legitimacy, his father having denied the marriage.

• Created Baron Carew, of Clopton, 1605, and later Earl of Totness; author of

' Hibernia Pacata.' Ite died lqaster of the Ordnance, lqawh 27th, 1629.

Kuighted for this service. 
There were originally to be only twelve ships of her majesty, twelve ships of the 

City, and twenty ships of the Netherlands; hut the tbrce was ,.onside:'::bly increased. Cal. of Hatfield 518.'4. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), pt. vi.

' Nederlandsche Zeewesen,' i. 143.