st>4- Hen. Vlll. Naval Expeditions, &c. of the English, Book I*

1536. In their Voyage homewards, theyWhich they g 0 t so far to the. Northward, that theyreturns * aw prodigious Islands of Ice, in theEngland. Summer-Season ; And about the latterEnd of OBober , they returned to St.Ives in Cornwal.

Some Months after, these French-men came to England, and made Com-plaint to the King of the Violence donethem. King Henry, considering theKing Henry J4 ece ff t y w hich had driven his Subjectsparation.' to this Piece of Injustice, instead of pu-nishing or calling them to an Account,made the French ample Satisfaction, outof his own Purse.

13-37. The Year 1337. was.remarkable for'The Birth of the Birth of Prince Edward, on thewarW Ed ' twelfth of OBober. His Mother, QueenAnd his Mo- J ane Seymour, Henrfs third Queen,ther’sDeath. dyed in Child-bed, twelve Days after-wards.

1339. In the Year 1339. William Fitz-J Fleet sent Williams, Earl of Southampton, was sentofCkve" ne WJt k a Fleet of fifty Sail, to bring overeve ' the Princess Ann of Cleves, to whomHenry was married, on the sixth of Ja-<The King nuary following. This Marriage was,marries her , however, soon annulled, by a Divorce,Divorces anc ^ the King was married, this fameher, and Year, to his fifth Wife, Catherine How-marries Ca- W ard, the Duke of Norfolk's Niece, whowares'^ °~ vvas declared Qupen, on the eighth ofShe 'incurs August. This Queen having incurredthe fame the fame Fate as Ann Bullen, and for

AmilL the fame Cause S Henry had the Couragei 343. to rahe a sixth VV ile, the Lady 6 atherineThe King Parr, Daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, ofmarries Ca- Jfendal, and Widow of John Nevil,thanneParr. p^rd fatimer, to whom he was marri-ed, in the Year 1343. the twelfth ofJuly.

1344. In the Year, 1344. Henry beingHolinsii. engaged in a War with Scotland,Herbert* 1 ' tbe Lord Liste, who had succeeded theBurchett. Earl of Surrey, in the Office of LordThe English High Admiral, received Orders to in-land^ ^ COt ~ vat ^ e thatKingdom, with a Fleet. The3n ' Earl of Hertford, who was LieutenantGeneral in the North,with several otherPersons of Distinction, and a considera-ble Body of Land Forces, embarked ontwo Hundred Transport Ships, at New-castle. From thence the whole Fleetfailed to Leith, near which Place theTroops were set on Shoar, on thefifth of May. They soon became Ma-„ sters of Leith, and were not long before

burg, in they reduced the City of Edinburg,

which they burnt and plundered, for 1344-three Days successively. Here theLord Evers , Warden of the EastMarches, joined them, having a largeBody of Troops under his Command.

The Citadel of Edinburg stood, howe-ver, out, against this united Force, andthe Lords High Admiral and General,finding little Probability of reducing it,they retired to Leith, which they like- ^

wife burnt, together with the Peer e

the Haven, and then what belongedto the Fleet re-embarked. From hencethe Fleet failed to scour the Coasts ofScotland, and, having every-where ta-ken or destroyed all the Ships and smal-ler Veils]s they found in the Creeks andHavens, as they passed, they returnedHome. The Land-forces, in the meanTime, having burnt Seton, Hadington, With fe® 1 'and Dunbar, with a great Number of r st otberother Towns, Castles, and Places, made aceS ‘their Retreat to Berwick, where, afterhaving laid all the Country Waste, thro'which they passed, they entered, theeighteenth of May, without having lost,in all this Journey, above forty Persons.

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The Earl of Lenox having soon after this Herbertmade a Treaty with King Henry, he ^noxTtf-was sent into Scotland, in the Month of VO ges theAugust, with twelve or fourteen Ships, Coasts ofand about six Hundred Men, under the Scotland-Command of some Englistj Knights.

With this little Force, he ravaged theIslands of Arrain and Bute, and burntall the Houses there. He afterwardslanded in the Earl of Argile's Country,near the Castle, of Dunvin, which heburnt, and then took and spoiled Cain-tyr. Returning with his Spoil to Bristol,he was again sent out with some Ships,to scour the Coast of Scotland.

King Henry being, at the fameTime, Herbert-at War with France, and having, about Burcbetf^Whitsuntide, transported a Part of his iSslU'Army, consisting of Thirty Thousand logne, ftMen, under the Command of the Sea jDuke of Norfolk, and several other Land 'Lords, Knights and Gentlemen, for Ca-lais, he followed them himself, withthe Remainder of his Troops, in July.

0 0 ) sonded on the fourteenth, at

Calais, and ordering his Troops to marchto Boulogne, he besieged it in Person byLand, and the Lord High Admiralstreightned it, at the fame Time, withhis Fleet, by Sea. The Town was sovigorously attacked, on both Sides, that

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st) The Ship the King went over in had Sails of Cloth of Gold.