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the pages went to the top castell with dartes : thus all things beyng provided,and set in order, the Englishemen approched towards the Frenchmen, whichcame fiercely forward, some leavyng his anchor, some with his foresayle only,to take the most advantage ; and when they weer in sight, they shot ordi-naunce so terribly together, that all the sea coast sounded of it. The lordeadmiral made with the great shippe of Depe, and chased her still. Sir HenryGuylford and Sir Charles Brandon beyng in the Sovereigne, made with thegreat caricke of Brest, and layde stemme to stemme to the caricke ; but bynegligence of the master, or else by smoke of the ordinaunce, or otherwise, theSovereigne was cast at the sterne of the caricke, with which advantage theFrenchemen shouted for joy ; but when Sir Thomas Knivet, which was readieto have horded the great ship of Depe, saw that the Sovereigne had missed thecaricke which Sir Anthony Oughtred chased hard at the sterne, and. bowged.her in divers places, and set a fire her powder as some say ; but sodeinly theRegent grappeled with her a long boorde ; and when they of the caricke per-ceyved that they could not depart, they let slip an ancre, and so with the stremethe ships turned, and the caricke was on the weather syde, and the Regent on.the lye syde : the fight was very cruell, for the archers of the Englishe part,and the crosbowes of the French part,, did their uttermost; but for all that theEnglishemen entered the caricke : which seeyng, a verlet gonner beyng despe-rate, put fyre in the gunpowder, as other say, and set the whole ship of fyre*the flame whereof set fyre in the Regent, and so these two noble ships, whichwere so grappeled together that they could not part, were consumed by fyre.The French navie perceivyng this, fled in all hast, some to Brest, and some tothe isles adjoinyng. The Englishemen in maner dismayed, sent out boates tohelp them in the Regent; but the fyre was so great, that no man durst approcb,savyng that by the James of Hull were certayne Frenchmen that could swimsaved. This burnyng of the caricke was happie for the French navie, or elsethey had been better assayled of the Englishemen, which were so amased withthis chaunce, that they folowed them not. The capitaine of this caricke was.Sir Piers Morgan, and with him ix hundred men slaine and dead : And withSir Thomas Knivet and Sir- John Crew, seven hundred men drowned and'burnt; and that night all the Englishemen lay in Bartram bay, for the French,fleete was sparkeled as you have heard.

“ The lord admiral called all the capitaines together, desiring them not to beashamed with this chaunce of warre, for he thought nowe that this was the

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