H.L-o EliZ. Naval Expeditions, &cc. of the Englifli, Book Xt

1^96. “ chard IV''ngfield, Sir Edward Wing- Sir William Monfon has given us a 1^96,“field, Captain of the Volunteers; List of fourteen Ships of this Fleet,

" and Andrew Ashley was Secretary at with their Commanders Names, which" War, whose Business it was to keep were probably the Chief of Her Ma-" a Register of their Councils, and the jesty’s Ships, that were employed in" Arguments used, and to record the this Expedition, (r) . ,

" several Actions and Attempts that" should be formed, (fi)

Commanders.

Ships

Thk Repulse. The Earl of Ejsex, and Captain,

: u y ., under him, Sir William Monfion.

Ark Royal, ’ The Lord High Admiral, and Cap-

The Earl of Ejsex, and Captain,

tain under him, Sir Amias Pre-fton.

Mary Honor a (d) The Lord Thomas Howard.Warfipight, . , Sir Wliter Raleigh.

Lion, , . .. A Sir Robert Southwell.

Rainbow, Sir Francis Vers.

; Sir Wliter Raleigh.

Sir Robert Southwell.

Sir Francis Vers.

Sir Robert Dudley.

Sir John Wingfield,

Sir George Carew.

Sir Alexander Clifford.

Sir Robert Cross.

Sir Robert Mansfield. (<?)Captain King.

[ Non-pareil, Sir Robert Dudley.

1 Vanguard Sir John Wingfield,

Mary-Rofe, Sir George Carew.

Dreadnought, Sir Alexander Clifford.

Swift Jure, Sir Robert Cross.

Acquittance, Sir Robert Mansfield. (<?)

Crane , Captain King.

Tramontana, (g )

Before I proceed to give my Rea- Design of this Expedition, and the Rea-ders an Account of the Proceedings of sons for some of the Transactions whichthis Fleet, it may not be amiss, in Or- follow, to lay before them the follow-dertogive them a better Idea of the ing Original Pieces.

Cotton Library, Otho. E. IX.

INSTRUCTIONS-(*) Earl of Essex, and

iral, under my Lord Treasurer’j own Hand-writing.

- , - of the INSTRUCTIONS - -theL- - Admiral, under my Lord Trea

tar I of Essex, and " set to the Seas, was upon common», Lord Admiral of " Report made, that the King of0 use themselves, for " Spain had made, and was in makingCommission given to tf ready a greater Navy to come to theTajefiy, by Her Let- " Seas, than was made in 88, and that

jnfiruBions for the Earl of Essex, andthe Lord Howard, Lord Admiral ofEngland, how to use themselves, forExecution of the Commission given tothem from Her Majefiy, by Her Let-ters Patent dated the - of - - -

- °f - " the same Navy should be come to

(t Our Seas, to invade Our Realm of-~ - E n gland, and with Part thereof to

ver, tnac our nrir intention rormaking ready of Our Navy, to be

give Aid to Our Rebels in Ireland.

But

if) This Account makes it pretty plain, that (e) Sir George Gilford.

the List, which the Reader has seen, Page 244. (f) The Tramontanes

taken out of the Cotton Library, ynd, by Mistake, (g) The Crane-placed in that Library, as a List of the Fleet in (b) These and the n<-w1588. is, as I have already hinted, Note (a) p. Reader wi/I findmthis S.h.Sl’ ^

26 5 - a List of the Fleet employed in this Expedi- are so damaged in the ManufcriDt f^rhevtion; to which therefore I refer the Reader. not legible. I ^ Z

(r)THis List is from a Manuscript in the Cotton- But, for the Words and Stile h-

the Alterations below are from his print they were, excepting the Change of ^Word oi>

cJZmL in 3 Piaces ’ "here I thought it abso-

(d) Mere Honour. htdy neceflary tor the Lake of Perspicuity.