advantageous, re-formed their fleet iuto one body. The lretons did the same, and the action was renewed until the English had

exhausted all their missiles, and had five huudred lneu killed or drowned. Then forty of their ships and one carrack surrendered. Those Englishmen who had flung their weapons overboard were thrown after theIn by the Ireton commanders. The rest, a thousaud in number, were carried into ]Breton ports.

Another notable French exploit of the year was a descent upon Haverfordwest by a hundred and twenty ships, with twelve hundred soldiers, under De Triesf AdmirM of France, who subsequently joined the XVelsh under Owen Glendower; but after the battle of Shrewsbury, the contingent went back to St. Pol de Lon. s In August a force under Du Ch'&tel--perhaps the same squadron which had defeated the English at sea--threw a body of men ashore near

Plymouth and pillaged and burnt the to;xn, sul)sequently departing unhindered.

In retaliation for the aftMr at Plynouth, a squadron, with six thousand men on board, sailed across to /rittauy in November, 1)urnt St. Mathieu, and massacred a bq'eat number of the in- habitants. A French force which assembled by the following day vas defeated in a bloody battle, and most of the /reton vessels on the coast were taken, and their crews murdered. From St. ]SIthieu the English went to Guicnne, and cptured in the Giroride a number of French vessels laden with wine. This English squadron seems to have been comlnanded by a gentleman named William Vilford; but its success did not free the coasts of England from the attacks of French pirates, aud in September, when XVinchester tppeared to be threatened, special lneans were adopted to provide for its defence? On November 5th, Thomas, fifth Lord Berkeley, was appointed

M,,nstrelet; Chron t,f St. Denis; Des Ursins; Gurin, 'Hist. Marit. de Fiauce,' i. 315. Some authorities say, under Clffttcaubriand and De la Jaille. a Monstrelet, xv. 4 Walsingham, 412; Chron. ,.,f St. Denis, iii. 113; Fabian (Ellis), :,71; ttcrb,urnc, 245. Many French historians al,pear to cvnfusc the vari,,us atteml,ts made at about titis time. Des Ursins, 157; Chr, m. of St. Denis, iii. 112, 113. ; Close Rolls, 4 Hen. iV. ; His ancestors had been I,ar,,ns by tenure since the k'onquesL tie succeeded his father llaurice in 13, being then fifteen. tie subsequently served ashore in France and Wales. This seems to have been his only naval command. lie died in 1415.

His daughter Elizabeth married Richard, Earl - Warwick.