who had temporarily transferred vessels for service with the admirals seein to have been unable to obtain their tonnage dues. The count, however, did not proceed to Vales. He contented himself with an attempt upon Fahnouth in November, but though he burnt the town, he was ultimately repulsed by the country people? Other events which probably behmg to the same year were the capture. hy Bretons and Flmmnds of numerous English merchantmen, an abortive English attempt upon La 1-Joebelle, 4 and the taking by the Captain of Calais of seventeen ships laden with wine; a but all of them are involved in much obscurity.

On February 20th, 1405, Prince Thomas of Lancaster, second sou of the king, though less than eighteen years of age, wt;s appointed sole Admiral of England, and sent to cruise against the French. This prince was afterwards created Duke of Clarence. At about the stone time, ltenry granted lieenees to two privateers of Bristol, the Trinity and the James, to cruise against the enemy at their own expense, and to keep as {heir own whatsoever they might take. s

The year was remarkable for the capture of Prince James, the heir to the throne of Scotland, then only fourteen years old. He was on his way from Leith, attended by the Earl of Orkney and a hishop, to be educated in France, when, on March :-I0th, he was ttken off Flareborough Head hy an "outlaw" named I'rendergast, in a ship fitted out at Cley, iu Norfolk. Prendergast, possibly in order to secure his own pardon, handed over his distinguished prisoner to Hem'y, and the prince was detained, and liberally educated, in Eugland for t[bout eighteen years, although he succeeded to the Scots throne as early as April 4th, 1406. * He has himself, iu his poems, s made allusion to his capture :--

"l'l,.n the wayis weltering to and fro, S, infortunate was we that. fremyt day. That, maugre idainly quether we w-ld or no, With .trong hand by fi,rce, scla-rtly t- say, I}f inymyes taken and led away We weren all, and brought in titair contrie."

Parl. R,,11s, iii. 554. .2 I'hrnn. of St. Deris, iii. 1!. s Walsingham, 413. Chr-n. of ,'qt. Denis, iii. 181. tterbourne, 248. � Patent lb,Ils, G Itch. 1V. tterbourne, '25.q, and Walsin.,.z'haln, 41!, place the calmlre in 140;. The Scoti-chr,,nicun ascribes it to March 3.th, 14)t. Wyntown, ii. 415, gives the date as Palm unday, 14o5. The best Scuts hist,,rians a,l-pt the year, 1405. s lie wrote' The King's Quhair,' and is supp.sed to have written 'Christis Kirk

of the thene' and 'Peebles to the Play.'