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

Ships. Commanders. .Military Officers. Earl of Essex. _liere Ironoar Sir R-bt. Mansell, Capt. Lord Thos. Howard, V.-A. ])ue qulse Middleton, Capt. Sir Walter Palegh, R.-A. Warslite' Sir Arthur Gorge.s, Capt. 'Henry, Earl of (larlad . (?) t S,,uthaml,ton- a D,:fia,we . Sir Amyas P,'t.on, Capt. Lord Mountjoy. Mary Rose . John X(ynter, Capt. Sir Fras. Vere. St. ]latthew . 1 (?) Sir Geo. Carew2 ,st. -t,dr( w . -- Throckmorton, Capt. Rainbow. . Sir Win. Monson, Capt. Bo,acenture. Sir Vm. Harvey, Cap. Dreadaoug]d. Sir Vm. Brooke, Capt. Swim,sure Sir Golly Meyrick, Cap. _4,tclope Sir Thos. Vavasour, ('al,t. areil 500 Sir Rich. Leveson. Capt. � resiy]t. 300 Carew Reynell, s Capt. Tremontana 140 Fenner, Capt. Moon. 60 Edwd. Michelbm, Capt. ion . 500 (?) ]b)pe 600 (?) "Some of her Majesty's small pinnaces" also "attended the fleet." o To the ;;'hole 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 ' Essex afterwards shifted his flag to the Due pulse. .oHoward afterwards shifted his flag to the �ion, which went out with stores after the main fleet had sailed. a Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton, seems to have gvne as a military vohmteer, although in Mouson's and Gorges's lists he appears as conmanding the G{trlad. tie was attacked and imprisoned for complicity with Essex, but re-created Earl in 1608, and made a K.G. He died in D;24.

In Gorges's anti Monson's lists, Carew figures as commanding the ,St. Matthew. 

He may have held naval as well as military comlnand.

Son of Rowland Meyrick, Bp. of Bangor, 155.q-68; had been -knighted for services 

at Cadiz. He was executed in 1600 for complicity with Esx. a Sir John Gilbert, who (lid not sail, seems to have been originally al,pointed to the A ,, tIope.

Sir Thos. Vavasour seems to have heen originally appointed to the

s Fifth son of Rich. Reynell, of East Ogwell, was knighted in 15:m for services in Ireland, and died in 1624. ' Sir Rich. Leveson seems to have been originally appointed to the i/of,..

v, Accotint of Gorges.