4 6 Edw. IiL Naval Expeditions, ike. of the English,

1338. All Things being ready, EdwardFroifT. resolving now in Earnest to purlue hisWalsmgh. Rl htS> set Sail f rom Orwell, in Suf-

i whhafreatjo'.k, the fifteenth of July 1338. withForce : a Fleet of five Hundred Ships, accom-

panied by the chief of his Nobility, and' arrived at Antwerp, July the two andtwentieth. But his Allies not being soforward, nothing was done this Y ear.

1339. {b) It was the first of September, 1339.before Edward was in a Readiness to en-ter into Action, but then he marchedat the Head of forty Thousand Men,ravaging as he went, and encamped be-tween Marchienne and E)ovay. On thethe nineteenth he marched towards leGambrests, and halted sometime before

obtains some the Walls of Cambray. Here he gotAdvantages. Information, that Philip was advancingwith a formidable Army, to give himBattle, upon which he crossed theSchelde to meet him. The two Armiesencamped very near one another afew Days afterwards, and the two andtwentieth of O Slob er was pitched uponby both Monarchs for a decisive Bat-tle : But Philip thought fit to retreatbefore the appointed Day; and Ed-ward, feing no Probability of bringinghim to a Battle, marched into Hai-nault.

Holinsli. Holxnsheai), among the Tranfac-

Fhe French tions of this Year, fays, that the Frenchinfej our f ore ly troubled the Coasts of thisRealm.

At Hastings, (fays he) on the Feast ofCorpus Chrsti, they burnt certain Fi-Ihermens Houses, and slew some ofthe Inhabitants. Also in the Havensabout Devonsthire and Comwal, and to-wards Bristol, they took and burnt se-veral Ships, killing the Mariners thatcame to their Hands; And in theWhitfun-Weefc. they landed at Ply-mouth, and burnt the greater Part ofthe Town ; But were repulsed with theLoss of five Hundred Men, by theEarl of Devonshire, with other Knights,and Men of the Country. The Scotchat the fame Time did much Damage tothe EngHfr by Sea and Land.

In the Mean Time, the King ofFrance sent forth a strong Nav> of Shipsand Gallies towards the Coast of Eng-land, which, arriving at Southampton ,-quickly after Michaelmass , took and

r {V) Ax this Time it was, that Edward hadthe famous Interview with the Emperour at Co-logne , when he made him Vicar-General of theEmpire.

(c) We find by Walsingham and FroiJJard , thatthe French landed the Year before, with the Help

pillaged that Town, and the next Day, 1339-setting Fire to it in five Places, at once,burnt the greater Part of it. About thefame Time, thirteen Sail of the FrenchFleet met with five Englist Ships, and,after an obstinate Resistance of nineHours, took the two largest, called theEdward, and the Christopher, the otherthree, being smaller Vessels, escapedby the Swiftness of their Sailing. Therewere slain on both Sides about fix Hun-dred Men.

About the latter End of this Year, ? ^ c f

the Mariners of the Cinq Ports, having t st e MasManned a Number of small Vessels, ners of thefailed over to Boulogne, where they land-ed in a Fog, and attacking the lowerTown, burnt nineteen Gallies, fourgreat Ships, and to the Number oftwenty smaller Vessels, together withTackling and Furniture. They like-wise set Fire to all the Houses that stoodnear the Water side, and, in particular,they burnt one large House, in whichwas such a Number of Oars, Sails,

Armour and Cross-bows, as would have.sufficed for the nineteen Gallies, andtheir Companies.

In 1340. (tho’ Walsingham places itin 1338.) King Edward first assumed the FrostsTitle of King of France, quartered the Walfingh-French Flower-de-luces, with his ownArms, and added the Motto, Dieu et Title cf fAmon Droit {God and my Right') to and the A

that he relied upon God and the Justice ^ fr “ nCof his Cause. He published, at thefame Time, a Declaration to the French,and a Manifesto against Philip.

Tho’ in this bis first Campaign, heobtained no very signal Advantages overthe French, (having confirmed his Al- Sec. Burch etIstance with Flanders ,) he returned toEngland, where he arrived in February,to hasten, by his Presence, the greatPreparations he had resolved to makefor the more vigorous Pursuance of theWat, in the approaching Campaign.

The F'rench were not all this "Time The py e Aidle ; But having got a good Number of commit fifShips together, committed several De- Depredatepredations on the Coasts, and particular-ly at Portsmouth, and in the Island ofGuernsey, where they laid almost all the f. Darn‘sTowns and Villages in A fires, (e) The Froiffass-French Historians likewise mention a

Sea-fight, 1

of their Gallies, at Southampton, and almost redu- Echard-ced it to Ashes; But Echard fays, they were re-pulsed the next Day, withjthe Loss of their Com-mander. and three Hundred Soldiers.

1 Walfingh.FroiJJard.