Iron Guns. =Golden Phenix= 300 120 24 Captain Samuel Argall. =Samuel= 300 120 22 Captain Chr. Harris. =Marygold= 260 100 21 Sir John Fearn. =Zouch Phenix= 280 120 26 Captain John Pennington. =Barbary= 200 80 18 Captain Thomas Porter. =Centurion= 200 100 22 Sir Francis Tanfield. =Primrose= 180 80 18 Sir John Hamden. =Hercules= 300 120 24 Captain Eusaby Cave. =Neptune= 280 120 21 Captain Robert Haughton. =Merchant-Bonaventure= 260 110 23 Captain John Chidley. =Restore= 130 50 12 Captain George Raymond. =Marmaduke= 100 50 12 Captain Thomas Harbert. The command of the squadron was given to Sir Robert Mansel, an old officer of the Elizabethan time, who had fought against the Armada, and had seen much service. He was a cousin of Lord Howard of Effingham, had been a greedy if not corrupt official, and had taken an active share in supporting the Lord Admiral in his opposition to the Commission of 1613. The second in command, Sir Richard Hawkins, was the son of the more famous Sir John. He had in the former reign been taken prisoner by the Spaniards in the South Seas after a gallant fight. During his captivity he had been converted to Roman Catholicism. His account of his voyage to the South Seas is, next to the _Naval Tracts_ of Sir William Monson, the best contemporary account of the sea life in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Captain John Pennington who appears among the commanders of the merchant ships, is the Sir John Pennington of later years. Although not a man of great ability or considerable achievements, he is interesting as a type. He belonged to a family of Puritan tradesmen, who came originally from Henham in Essex, but were settled in London. The seaman did not share the politics of his family, but was, in the fullest sense of the word, a king's servant, making it his boast that it was his one rule to obey his master's orders. He began life as a merchant's skipper, and sailed in the employment of Raleigh in the last voyage to Guiana. He had endeavoured to enter the service of the East India Company, without success, although (if it ought not to be because) he had the patronage of Buckingham. The same patron probably obtained for him the command of the =Zouch Phenix= on this voyage. From this time forward he was regularly in the employment of the Crown, and generally in command of the Narrow Seas. The qualities which made his fortune lie on the surface. He was, as has already been said, the king's servant and nothing more, ready to fight or to run away, to tell the truth or to lie, even to tell manifestly incompatible lies, upon the order of