66 Hen, V. Kami Expeditions , &c # of the English, Book I

14.16. . fu Order to conceal their Preparations,the Constable of France found a PretextTindalT^ to carry King Charles with his Court toNotes. Roan. ' While the Court was there, theEarl of JDor/et , Governour of Harseur,Bravery o/made an Inroad to the very Gates ofthat City, and returned with a greatfleur/ Booty. The Constable followed him inthis Ketreat, and at first gained someAdvantage, but was obliged in the Endto retire With Precipitation to Roan, tho’the Englijh were but fifteen Hundred,and the French Fifteen Thousand. Thisbad Success did not,however, discouragethe Constable from hastening his Prepa-rations, and lome Genoese Ships, whichwere to join the French Fleet being ar-rived, he gathered his Troops, whichhe had purposely dispersed, together,and headed them. In the mean Time,Part of the French Fleet came and block-ed up the Englijh Fleet at Portsmouthand Southampton, and made an Attemptupon the Isle of Wight, but were beatenback with Loss. All Things being atlast ready, the Constable inarched withThe French a considerable Army, and invested it onhcsegeHzr- t ] ie Land-side, while the Vice-Admi-h Land and ra], Viscount de Narbonne, with theSea. whole French Navy under his Com-

mand blocked it so closely up by Sea,that nothing could go out. The Siegewas pursued with all the Vigour ima-ginable, and the Earl of Dorset, (d)who commanded in the Place, put topretty hard Streights, when the Eng-lish Fleet, consisting of four HundredSail, with twenty Thousand Men ,which were sent to it’s Relief, com-manded by the Duke of Bedford, theKing’s Brother, in whose Retinue wereMonsireier. several other Persons of great Distinc-Walsingh, tion, entered the Mouth of the Seme.

They found the Enemy’s Fleet, in 141 Cwhich were several large Genoeje Car-racks, (e) lying before the Haven ofRapinHarseur, and pressing the Siege withall possible Vigour. No Relief couldbe eiven the Town without forcing a _Passage through the French Fleet; An desinK 1Engagement, therefore, was unavoida- wholeble. The Englijh began the Attackwith an undaunted Vigour, and tho’the Freneh maintain’d the Fight forsome Hours, with great Courage, theygave Way at last, and were totally de-feated. Five Hundred Vessels weretaken or funk, together with three,

Rapin fays five, of the Genoeje Car-racks, and, according to some, twentyThousand Men lost. The whole En-glijh Fleet entered the Port in Tri-umph, and carried the Town a seaso-nable Relief. The Army, on theLand-side, finding their Fleet destroy- AndraiJ 1ed, thought it safest to raise the Siege theS,e & e 'and decamp.

A n Interview having been concert-ed between the King and the Duke of KingBurgundy, at Calais, the King embark- convoys tWed, September the fourth, at Sandwich,in Company with the Emperour, who j Tredlhad been some Time in England, and with But-convoy’d him, with forty Ships to Ca- fs n ^l'y s F'lais. Thither the Duke came about dera,E-&three Weeks afterwards, and a Treaty p. 394-of Alliance against France was con-cluded. Before Henry left Calais, heconcluded, however , a Truce withFrance ; till the Second of February,and returned about the Middle of Oc-tober to England, (d)

over

tober to England, (d)

In the Year 1417. Henry, resolving 14x77to improve the favourable Juncture of Succefeithe then distracted State of France, fitted theout a Fleet, with the Design of going

Burchett.

F. Daniel,Ji. de lajMilice deFrance.

Hackluyt.

(#) Mr. Secretary Burchett fays,Duke of Exe-ter, but the King did not honour him with thisTitle, till after his Return to England.

(r) A French Author fays, about this Timethese unweildy Monsters began first to be known,(in which, however, he was mistaken, as wehave seen in Edward III'* Reign.) They werebuilt, fays he, by the Genoese , and by the Spani-ards, and were of such Force, that the Englijhdurst not appear before them. The Vanity, aswell as Falsehood, of this Assertion we have seenin the Reign I have just mentioned. We haveanother Instance now before us, and we shall meetwith more in the Sequel.

(d) Hackluyt, P. I. p. 183. has the follow-ing remarkable Extract, taken ont of 2 Chroni-cle in the 'Trinity Church in Winchester.

" Eodem Anno quo victoria potitus est, vide-<{ licet Anno Domini 1415, 8c Regni Li Anno

“ tertio, post helium de Agincourt , conduct! a“ Francis venerunt cum multis Navibus recu-" peraturi Harfletium. Sed Rex Angliœ misit" iratrem fuum, Johannem , Ducem Bedfordirz“ -dndegaviœ, qui pugnavit cum eis 8c vicit," “■ na ves cepit, 8c quafdam fubmersit: cæteri" logs runt cum Hispanis navibus qui venerant" cu ™ eit Anno Gratia: 1416. Sequenti veroAnno" re <herunt potentiores, 8c iterum devicti per-" P etu am pacem cum Rege compofuerunt, &" ptvpter eorum naves fecit rex fieri naves quales" b, on eran . t in Mundo. De his sic conductis a" hr anc is ita metrice fcribitur.

Regnm belligero trito celeberrimus arroOallos, Hupanos, Janos, de vicit, & Urget,Vastat ; turbantur cetera regna metu.

Navali hello bis devicti quoque Jani.

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