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

Ships.	Tons.	Guns.	Men.	Commanders.		Military Officers
Mere Honour[1]	800	400	41	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Earl of Essex.
					Sir Robt. Mansell, Capt
Due Repulse[2]	700	350	50	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Lord Thos. Howard, V.-A.
					— Middleton, Capt.
Warspite	600	300	29	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Sir Walter Ralegh, R.-A.
					Sir Arthur Gorges, Capt.
Garland	700	300	45	(?)		Henry, Earl of Southampton[3]
Defiance	500	250	46	Sir Amyas Preston, Capt.		Lord Mountjoy.
Mary Rose	600	250	39	John Wynter, Capt.		Sir Fras. Vere.
St. Matthew	1000	500	48	(?)		Sir Geo. Carew[4]
St. Andrew	900	400	50	— Throckmorton, Capt.
Rainbow	500	250	26	Sir Wm. Monson, Capt.
Bonaventure	600	250	47	Sir Wm. Harvey, Capt.
Dreadnought	400	200	41	Sir Wm. Brooke, Capt
Swiftsure	400	200	41	Sir Gelly Meyrick,[5] Capt.
Antelope[6]	350	160	38	Sir Thos. Vavasour, Capt.
Nonpareil[7]	500	250	56	Sir Rich. Leveson, Capt
Foresight	300	160	37	Carew Reynell,[8] Capt.
Tremontana	140	70	21	— Fenner, Capt.
Moon	60	40	9	Edwrd. Mitchelburne, Capt.
Lion	500	250	60	(?)
Hope[9]	600	250	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.
10. Account of Gorges.