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1547* The Peace being thus concluded withHolinsh. France, Monsieur d'Annebault, High/ Admiral, with several other Persons of

Frznœto° m Distinction, and a Retinue of two Hun-ratify it. dred Gentlemen, came over with twelveGallies, and a fine Ship called the Sacre,from Diep , and failed up the Thames,as far as Blackball, where the Admiralwas received into the King’s Barge, bythe Earls of Derby and Ejfex, and car-ried to Greenwich. The next Day, hecame up, with his Gallies, and landedat the Tower-Wharf, having been salu-ted by the Way, and at his Arrival, bya great Number of Guns, as well fromthe Shoar, as the Ships in the River.The Occasion of this stately Ambassywas for the Admiral to swear, in theName of his Master, to perform theArticles of the Peace, which he did, onthe four and twentieth of August , atHampton-Court , with great Solemnity,and then returned.

F. Daniel, I have had frequent Occasion tonisi. de la m ention the Difference in Bulk, betweenFrance , 1 T. the Ships which in former Times wereII. p- 45b. called Men of War, and what we nowcall so. I find, in Father Daniels Hi-story of the French Militia, an incon-testable Proof, with Regard to theFrench Ships, which is of equal Forcewith Respect to ours. " One Obferva-" tion (fays he) will alone suffice to e-" vince, that the largest Men of War,“ of former Days, were not to compare" in Bulk with those of the present<r Time, which is, that our Fleets were" fitted out in Harbours, where now

tf Ships of a middling Size have not 1546-" Water to ride. Harsteur was one of" the most considerable of these Ports;

" But now Sheep feed where formerly" whole Fleets rode at Anchor, the

Sea having withdrawn itself the Di-" stance of a large League; And it is" very visible how shallow the Water" was at that Time. The Port of Havretf de Grace was one of the most consi-" derable Rendezvous for the Shipping" of those Days, after Francis I. had" caused the Town of that Name to be" built. The Haven of Brest was fel-" dom used for the assembling of Fleets;t( Because it was thought to be at too" great a Distance. Port Lewis was not" in the Condition it now is in, nor was" the Harbour of Roches ort then made" Use of for that Purpose; And yet" these are all the Ports, in the Ocean,

" where our great Vestels ride at An-" chor.

It is likewise plain, from what I have Gamd.Esalready more than once observed, thatour Kings, ’till QuoenElizabetlfs Reign,had no considerable Fleets of their own.

King Henry had so few Ships, that whenhe had Occasion to form aFleet, he wasobliged to hire them of the Venetians,

Genoese and the Hanje-towns.

Kino Henry dying, the next Year, inthe Night between the eight and twen- ofK.&sVi'tieth, and nine and twentieth of Janu-ary, left the Crown to his only Son,

Edward VI. after a Reign of seven andthirty Years, nine Months and fiveDays.

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Na val Expeditions and TransaBions of the Englilh, with other Occur-rences, during the Reign of King Edward VI.

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King Ed-ward VI.proclaimedand crown-ed.

Hayward.Holinsh.Buchanan.Rapin withTind. Notes.Burchett.

E D JV A R D VI. only Son ofHenry VIII. succeeded his Fatherat the Age of nine Years andthree Months. He was proclaim-ed the one and thirtieth of January, andwas crowned the twentieth of Februaryfollowing, with the usual Solemnities.

A War breaking out with Scotland,in the very Beginning of King Edward'sReign, both a Fleet and an Army wereprepared to invade that Kingdom, atone and the fame Time.

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