^h a p,XXTIL from the Conquest, to the Death of JLMaryl, 11 $
r 547. " parel and Weapons., as never before" was an Army set forth, into those" Parts, in all Points better appointed.
While these Preparations were mak-ing several little Hostilities were com-mitted, between the two Nations. SirJohn Hayward mentions one, in par-ticular, which, he fays, seemed to bea Presage to the succeeding War : (t AJ%. Vard " small Ship (says our Author) of the€t King’s, called the Pensy, hovering at" Sea, was assailed by the Lion, a" principal Ship of Scotland. The" Fight began afar off and flow ; But,tc when they approached, it grew very" furious, wherein the Pensy so appli-ed her Shot, that therewith the Lion’s<t Oar-loop (Decks was broken, herSails and Tacklings torn, and lastly," she was boarded and taken : But as" she was brought to England , she was“ cast away near Harwich , and most* c of her Men perished with her.
The Command of the Fleet was com-mitted to the Lord Clinton , as Admiral,and Sir IVilliam Woodhoufe , Vice-Ad-
C*&1-
miral ; And of the Army, to the Dukeof Sommerset, who, marching with hisTroops into Scotland, defeated the Scotsat MufJ'elburg.
This Battle was fought on the tenthof September. The Scots, whose Armyconsisted of five and thirty, or six andthirty Thousand Men, are said to havelost fourteen Thousand, dead on thePlace, and that they left Fifteen Hun-dred Prisoners, of whom eight Hundredwere Gentlemen, in the Hands of theEngliJJj. The Fleet lay near enough tofire upon the Flank of the Scotch Army,and in particular a Gaily, which, beinglighter than the rest of the Ships, camevery near the Land, and gauled themextreamly.
Hayward gives a very long andcircumstantial Account of this Battle,and mentions, in particular, that in theScots Army was said to have been aBand of three or four Thousand Kirk-men ( Ecclesiaficks ) Bishops, Abbots,Priests or Monks.
?}<?{? 1 The Duke soon aster took Leith.i!f uh The Lord Clinton , in the mean Time,CoJ the] scoured the Coasts, with four and twen-ty Men of War, (according to Mr.Secretary Burchett) one Gaily, andthirty other Vessels of several Sorts,landed in several Places, burnt theSea-port Towns, with the Ships in theirHarbours, and lay’d waste where-ver he came.
In a Manuscript, in the Cotton Li- 1547. 1
brary , we find a Letter from- Berte- MS. in Bib!.
ville to King Edward VI, which gives, ^ ot -^' leo P‘likewise, a very circumstantial Accountof this Battle; And, speaking of theServices done by the Fleet, under theCommand of Admiral Clinton , in par-ticular fays; the English pursued theScotch Ships, which were retired forShelter up the Rivers, with suchSuccess, that there was not a Ship ofWar left in the Kingdom of Scotland.
The English Army marched victoriousinto Edinburg , and, meeting with noOp-position, plundered the City.
In 1548, a Fleet was sent under 1 54^ ithe Command of Admiral Seymour, to f^ r .annoy the Coasts of Scotland. He infests the °
made several Descents ; ( Echard fays, Coasts ofbut two) But was always repulsed Scotland -with Loss, and returned at last to En-gland, without having done much Da-mage to the Scots. Hayward fays,this Fleet coming to Brent Island, firedfour Ships, then attempting upon' StMinoe was repulsed by the Lord Dun,and so, without any Glory or Gain,returned into England.
This Year, an Act of Parliament An As forwas passed, which gave free Licence Liberty ofto every one to traffick and fish on the Newfound-Coast of Newfoundland and otherPlaces, land.without paying any Fee, or Reward Hackluyt,for the Privilege, to anyone, whom-' f> ' In -^' r3r “soever, Hackluyt has given us a Copyof this Act, and, at the Bottom of it,adds; " By this Act it appears, that" the Trade out of England to New-" foundland was common and fre-te quented, about the Beginning of“ King Edward VI’s Time.” Uponwhich he expresses his Wonder that itwas so little known in his Time, whichwas the latter End of the SixteenthCentury.
In the Year 1549. King Edward I 5’49*granted SebaJHan Cabot, an honoura- /ble Pension of one Hundred and Sixty -granted tosix Pounds, thirteen Shillings and four SebastianPence, for Life, ‘ in Consideration, as Cabot -well of his great Skill in Cosmographyand Navigation, as of Services done tothe Government and Nation.
The Letters Patent, by which thisZiacKIuyt,Grant was made, we find in Hackluyt, P.m, p.jo,in the following Terms.
" Edward, the sixth, by the Grace" of God, King of England, France andcc Ireland, Defender of the Faith, to" all CbriJHan People to whom these
" Presents