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they were left to the Mercy of theFrench , who pressed upon them, withso great a Number of Pikes, that theywere not able to resist the fuperiourForce, but were bore into the Sea,without any Distinction of Persons, (z)The Lord Ferrers, with his Gaily, andand the smaller Vessels, was, in themean Time, engaged with the otherGallies; but all his Shot being spent,without obtaining any Advantage, andseing the Admiral’s Gaily fall offj heconcluded his Person was at least inSafety, and therefore retreated. TheAdmiral being, however, soon missed,a Flag of Truce, with Sir ‘Thomas Chey-ney , Sir Richard Cornwall, and Sir JohnWallop was sent to Pregent, to enquirewhat Prisoners he had made. The An-swer was, one common Sailor only, whohad informed him, that the Admiralwas among the Persons they had forcedover-board. The Fleet, having nowlost it’s Commander, was discouragedfrom any fartherAttempt, and so return-ed to the Coasts of Er gland.

Flushed with this unexpected, tho’inconsiderable Success, Pregent soonfollowed • them, landed some Men inSussex, ravaged theCountry, and carriedaway some Booty. He was, however,soon obliged to retire, by the fuperiourForce of Sir Thomas Howard, who suc-ceeded His Brother, as Lord High Ad-miral, and had put to Sea with a freshSquadron. The Seas being freed fromthe French, this Squadron helped to con-voy the King and his Army to Calais ;where he arrived, with four HundredShips, the thirtieth of May, (Herbertfays June) the best Part of his Army,under the Command of the Earl ofof Shrewsbury , and the Lord ITerbert ,having been transported thither beforehim. This Monarch’s first Enterprisewas to enter into the Dominions ofFrance, where his Armies had beforeinvested Terouenne, on the two andtwentieth of June. The French madean Attempt to relieve it, but were de-feated, (k) and the Place was obliged toto surrender, on the two and twentiethof August. Tournay underwent thelame Fate, quickly afterwards. TheKing’s Army arrived before it on the fif-

teenth of September, and it held out butseven or eightDays, tho’ they had placedthis Inscription over the Gates. Thouhast never lost thy Virginity. With theReduction of thisPlace, Henry ended theCampaign, and returned to his Englijh The KingDominions, where he arrived the one retu ms,and twentieth of Oblober. A Treaty ofPeace ensued, but it was some Yearsbefore it was brought to a Conclusion,and then lasted but a very^short Time.

In the Year 1514. Pregent, ofwhom 1514.Mention is made in the Transactions of Pxeuchthe foregoing Year, landed on the u st e fi tbeCoast of Sustex, and burnt Bright elm- stst. ^ " a 'Jlone, whereupon Sir John Wallop wassent to revenge this Affront. He land-ed in Normandy, and burnt one andtwenty Towns and Villages. This Year, AndtheEn-.the Princess Mary, Henry’s Sister, wasmarried to Lewis, King of France. TheKing and Queen conducted her to Dover,from whence the Duke of Norfolk, ac- ft^marrildcompanied by several others Persons of to the KingDistinction, attended her to Abbeville. e/France.She embarked the second of OSlober, atGreenwich.

In the Beginning of the Year 151 6. j ^16.was born the Princess Mary , who suc- The trine ess'needed afterwards to the Crown. Mary bom.

In the III. P. of Hackluyt’s Voyages, Hacksoyt.p. 498. & Jeq. we have the follow- The Voyage

in g remarkable Account, which may °t Si t Tho-properly find a Place here: " That ““

" learned and painful Writer Richard an Cabot to" Eden, in his Epistle to the Duke of ^ rasi h St -“ Northumberland,, before his Transia- oxnin g°> &c" tion of a Work called a Treatise of" New India,, makes Mention of a" Voyage of Discovery, undertaken" out of England, about the eighth" Year of Henry VIII. by Sir Thomas" Pert, and Sebastian Cabot, imputing" the Overthrow thereof to the Cowar-" dice of the former. If (says he) man-" ly Courage had not been wanting, in" these our Days, at such Time as our" Sovereign Lord, King Henry VIII.

" furnished or sent out certain Ships un-" der the Governance of Sebastian Ca-“ bot, and one Sir Thomas Pert, whose" faint Heart was the Cause that the" Voyage took none Effect, it might" happily have come to pass, that the" rich Treasury, called Perularia,

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(?) Holinshead’s Account of this Action ispretty diflerent from what we have here given ;But, as this has the Sanction of so many Authorsof unquestionable Credit, I chose to give theirRelation the Preference.

(k) This Battle, which was fought the six-teenth of August, was called, by the French, La

Jbur nee des Ejperons , or, the Battle of Spurs,because they made little Use of any Thing else.But what did the greatest Honour to King Henry,in this Battle, vVas, that the Kmperour Maximiliansought under him, as his Soldier-, and actually rev.epived his Pay as fach-