In 1409 or 1410, Sir ]obcrt Umfravill, who ha,1 1,ten made

Vice-AdlnirM of England, with ten ships of w,r, h:mssed the Scots coasts, burut a Scots gdliot and other craft off I31ackness, and took fourteen vessels laden vith cloth, pitch, tar, meal, md other mcrchandise, which, being brought to iEngland t a time of gret need, ezrned for the cptor the nickname of Iobert 5Iendlnarket) In 1411, wheu :Henry sent an envoy to Castille to settle certai! disputes, he desired him to cndeavour to purchase a Castillian ship, the St. Mary, which was then t St. Sebastian. In the same year, s nd again in 1419, 4 ships and seamen were impressed for the king's service to Guicnne; and in the autumn of the latter year, Priuce Thomas, Duke of Clarence, went to Guieme with a large rmy to the assistance of the Dukes of ]3erry, Orleans, and Bourbou, who hd agreed to deliver Guienne to England.

The capture of James of Scotland by an "outlaw" muned Prendergast in 1405 hs been noted in its place. Prcndcrgast seems to have subsequently entered the king's service and to hve been knighted; for, in 141'. ), Sir John trendergast and Vi]liam Loug, who hd been employed in keeping the scs free from pin, res, were accused of robbery aud other illegalities. They were fifteenth-century prototypes of the notorious Captain Kidd. Prendergst took sylum nnder tent near the vestibule of Vest- minster Abbey. Later he gaiu served t se. Long wzs found t se by the admiral, vho, by a promise that no harm shouhl be done to him, induced him to surrender; but the prisoner was, nevertheless, committed to the Tower? Wht afterwards happened to this rover does not appear. [t is certain, however, that, whether owing to these men's negligence or to their feel)lcness, the Narrow Ses were inefficiently policed in the kst &ys of Henry IX'. In 1419, some vessels and goods belonging to ]3rittany, improperly captured by seamen of Devonshire nd Conwall, had to be rcstored. and letters of marque nd reprisals were issued to persons who had suffered by the depredations of the Baron de Pens. And in 1413 other letters were grnted gainst citizens of Genoa, and a.gaius 8 the inhbitauts of Sntander. The king died on 5Iarch th, 1413, and ws succeeded by his eldest son, Henry V., of 5Ionmouth.

llardyng, 3(;5, 36(; (Ellis). Pro. and Ord. of Privy Council, ii. 25, 11S, 11',. s , Fredera,' viii. 700. Ib., viii. 7::, 733. Ib., viii. 74,, 747, 774. Walsingham, 423; (tterbom'nc, 271; 'Ypt)digma lX'eustri;u,' 571.

? ' [?tdel;%' viii. 764. lb., viii. 755, 772, 77:1.