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 1920 SIXTEENTH CENTURY ^ 505 of England, printed in 1577, says 'she [Elizabeth] hath likewise three notable gallies : the Speed well, the Trie right, and the Blacke gallie '. ^ This coincidence of name may of course be due merely to the fact that the Eleanor happened to be painted black, but when it is taken in conjunction with the statement that the Eleanor was a French prize,'^ it looks as though she were nothing more than the old Black Galley of Edward VI's reign under another name. And the Eleanor had stiU one more transformation through which to pass, for from about 1584 she was most probably known as the Bonavolia.^ This change of name is confirmed by an alteration in a document which is probably in Hawkyns's hand and which is headed ' a note of the charge of suche persones as are to be mayntayned in the galle ellenore '. The name 'ellenore ' has been scored through and ' bonavolia ' written above, although the endorsement ' a note for the galle ellenor ' remains imchanged.* It looks as though Hawkyns also was getting a little confused by the frequent changes of name this galley had undergone. The Speedwell and the Tryright had very short and uneventful lives. They were probably built in 1559-60,^ and they disappear after 1579,^ so that the Bonavolia was the only galley in the service at the time of the great campaign of 1588.' At first she was attached to the squadron under Seymour, which was blockading Parma off the Flanders coast, but it was soon found that the weather was too stormy for her, and throughout the greater part of the year she combined the duties of guardship at the mouth of the Thames with those of tug for getting supply-ships safely to sea. After 1599 she is heard of no more.® In the last years of Elizabeth's reign five new galleys appear : the Mercury, La Superlativa, La Advantagia, La Volatilia, and La Gallarita.^ The Mercury was built at Deptford in 1592, and " Oppenheim, p. 120. (1 January to 31 December 1584). ' Oppenheim, p. 120. See also above, p. 504. They are not given in either the navy list of 20 February 1559 (State Papers, Dom., Eliz., ii. 30) or in the Book of Sea Causes of 24 March 1559 (State Papers, Dom., Eliz., iii. 44), but they appear in a list of the royal fleet given in the Pipe Office Declared Accounts 2358 ( 1 January 1659 to 1 January 1561). " Oppenheim, p. 123. ' Derrick, p. 27. " Oppenheim, p. 123. Herlast record of service seems to be in 1596, when the privy council write to Mr. William Borough, comptroller of the navy : ' As you have received already order from me, the Lord Admyrall, to prepare and make ready the litle galley, so we are to require you to use all possible diligence and meanes to put in a readynes the great blacke galley called the Buona Voglia, onlie to be made hable to ly in the river of Medway for one monneth and to carry good ordonance and to be well manned ' {Acts of the Privy Council, xxvi. 312, 19 November 1596). This ' litle galley ' was prob- ably the Mercury : see below, and State Papers, Dom., Eliz., cclvii. 67.
 * Description of England (ed. Furnivall), i. 290.
 * Ihid. She appears as the Eleanor in the Pipe Office Declared Accounts 2381
 * State Papers, Dom., Eliz., ccxxix. 77. This is assigned to the year 1589.
 * Oppenheim, p. 121.