io6 Hen VTIi, Naval Expeditions ,&c of the English, Book !'

1545. Misfortune to lose one of their largestAn English Ships, the Mary-Rose, commanded bybhipsunk. sir George Carew, with her Commander,j skirmish 3nd the whole Ship’s Crew. (r) Thisbetween the Fleet, which consisted of about sixtyFrench ^ a Skirmish with the French

P/eets. Fleet, which continued till Night sepa-rated them.

F. Daniels Father Daniel says; that the FrenchAccount of Admiral, seing the English would notthis Ca on. ac j vancej I a id Hold of the Opportunity

of a Calm, and attacked them with hisGallies, for the Space of an Hour, aslong as the Calm lasted. In this Time,continues he, the Mary-Rofe, one ofthe largest Ships in the English Fleet,wasfunk, and the Great Henry, on boardof which the Admiral had hoifed hisFlag, was so battered, that slie wouldlikewise have been lost, had not theEnglish towed her away as they did.Herbert. The French landed some of theirBurchett. Men, the next Morning, at threePlaces,The ^French } n t p e jn e 0 s Wight, but were quickly

ine N be obliged to retire, (s) This first Re-Wight : pulse did not, however, discourage

But are re- t ] iem ; for they presently landed again,^They land a an ^ began to consider of Means howsecond ‘Time ; they might reduce, and when reduced,keep this Island. They found, uponDeliberation, that the latter was notto be done, without erecting Forts,To as little w }iich they had neither Time, nor Menurpoje. effectuate, and so wisely resolved to

re-embark, and return as they came.

The French Historians fay, theyonce had a Design of erecting Forts onthe Island, and maintaining it, which(fay they ) had they done, they wouldsoon have forced the English to abandonBoulogne (lately taken by their King,Hettry VIII.) and cut of their Navigati-on to France an & Spain: But (continuethey) Annibault, with a Fleet of fiftyMen of War, sixty Ships of Burden,and fifteen Gallies, satisfied with havingonly alarmed the Coasts, in gloriouslyturned his Back upon the English, andreturned Home.

They set Sail for Port et, near Bou-logne j But passing by the Coasts ofSussex, i,n their Way thither, they

made a third Attempt, and landed 1some Troops, near Bright elms} one andNew Haven, which were likewise re-pulsed with great Loss. ~ t

At Portet they landed fourThousand ss-sss sheMen, but the W ind coming about to /,£<? pate etthe Eastward, (t) they returned again the Sussexto our Coasts. The English Admiral, Coa fi- ;having now a Fleet of a Hundred Sail, j

with Orders from the King to engage,offered the French Battle, which theyaccepted. TheEngagement was sharp, A Sea-fiff. ;for the Time it lasted, but Night com- l s m sf si jing on, about two Hours after the Bat-tie begun, separated the two Fleets. Fleets.

The French made the best of their Wayto Havre de Grace, and attempted no-thing more this Year. (a) The LordHigh Admiral resolved now, in hisTurn, to visit the flench Ccfasts, andlanding six Thousand ' Men at Treport, Trep of*burnt the Town and Abby, with Thirty with JssssShips which were in the Harbour, and shiph ^having done all this, with the Loss of by the E n ' ?fourteen Men only, returned with hisFleet to England.

The most particular Relation I find Monfis j*of this Sea-fight (or rather these three Bella 5 r W (!Sea-fights) is, on the French Side, in C jss 0 ns-the Memoires of Martin du Bellay,which, as it gives a more circumstan-tial Account, than I find elsewhere, ofthe Manner of Fighting at Sea, in thoseDays, will not, I believe, be unaccep-table to the Reader. I have, there-fore, made no Mention of it, in theAccount I have given above, that Imight place it here entire, and by it-self ; And at the End of it, I shall add |

some Remarks of Father Daniel’ s on >

these Engagements. ^ ‘

The Number of Ships, fays Mon- TheStr^ssieur du Bellay, which were taken into ofthe$ xiCommission, to compose this Fleet,consisted of one Hundred and fifty largeShips, besides fifty Veffels of smallerBurden, and five and twenty Gallies;

All which set Sail the same Day, be-ing the sixth of July, from Havre deGrace, la Fosse d’Eure, Honjleur, Har-sleur and Diep, and directed their Coursefor the Isle of Wight, and the Harbour

of

irchett.

r William[orison's

(r) Her Loss was occasioned (fays Mr. Secre-tary Burchett) by a little Sway which oversether, her Ports being made within sixteen Inchesof the Water: Sir William Monson observes,that the King had dined on Board her that very

Day. ,

(j-) French Historians fay, they plundered

some Villages and then retreated.

is) Hounshead fays, that of those which

were landed, sew returned to their Ships, theybeing intercepted by Sir Nicholas Pelham, andseveral other Gentlemen of the Country withsuch h orces as they could of a sudden raise.

M Ra pin says a South Wind blew the French R a P ,! 'back towards the Coasts of England.

Here Rap'tn ^ adds; and thus ended the great-est Attempt the french had ever made at Sea.

Hofinjh.