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In 1 619 he resigned office in favour of Buckingham. 

 He died on 14th December, 1624. His portrait is 

 taken from the engraving by William Rogers in the 

 Cracherode Collection in the British Museum. 



The Ark Royal, 208 



This vessel (Lord Howard of Effingham's flagship against 

 the Armada) v^^as built at Deptford in 1587 by 

 Richard Chapman, a Government Shipwright. She 

 is sometimes called the 'Ark Raleigh,' and may 

 originally have been built for Sir Walter Raleigh, 

 and afterwards sold by him to the Government. 

 She was about 700 tons burden, with a length of 

 keel of about 100 feet and a beam of about 37. 

 When in commission she carried a crew of about 

 400 men of whom 100 were soldiers and 32 gunners. 

 Effingham, in a letter to Lord Burghley, dated 'the 

 laste of Februarie, 1587,' says 'I praie your Lord- 

 ship tell her Ma^'^ from me that her money was 

 well geven for the Arke Raw lye, for I think her 

 the odd ship in the worlde for all conditions, 

 and truely I think there can no great ship make 

 me change and go out of her.' After taking part 

 in numerous expeditions she was rebuilt in 160H 

 and re-christened the * Anne Royal ' in honour of 

 James L's Queen. This reproduction is from the 

 engraving in the Print Department of the British 

 Museum. 



The first Action in the English Channel against the 

 Armada, ....... 



From Robert Adams' Charts engraved by Augustine 

 Ryther, for P. Ubaldini's Expeditionis Hispanorum 

 in Angliam Vera Description 1588, in the British 

 Museum. From these charts the Armada tapestries 



