The fleet of fourteen hundred vessels, with six thousand

men-at-arms, and twenty-fore' thousand archers, sailed on Sunday, August 11th, and cntercd the Seine on the following Tucs&;y afternoon. It met with no resistance on the passage. Indeed, it does not appear theft any considcrablc French force was then ;t sea.

YIenry. anchorcd about three miles above I-Iarficur, and simllcd to his captains to attend him at a council of war. At daybreak on Vcdncsday, the 14th, the landing began, most of the army reaching the shore between six and seven. Still there was no opposition. :B' Sattu'd,y, the 17th, siege was laid to YIarfieur. The month of the harbour was closed by a chain drawn between two fortified to;vcrs that fiamkcd the entrance, and by a boom of stakes and trunks of trees; and behind the obstacles lay a small l?rcnch squadron, upon which many vain attempts were made by the ]English fleet. The navy, however, co-operated mainly by enforcing a strict blockade, and by keeping up communications across the waterways. Vhcn the town had fallen, on September 9nd, some of the prisoners, with the sick, were sent to England with the fleet, sailing on October 8th; and the army marched inland on its way to Calais. The victory of Agincourt was won on October 25th, and on S;turday, November l(;th, Henry embarked at Calais, and reached I)ovcr late on the same day.

The passage was very boisterous, and though the king did not suffer in the least, most of the French noblemen who were his prisoners were so sea-sick that they would have preferred to face again the dangers of the battle. The fleet was in part dispersed, several ships being driven into Zicrikzce at the mouth of the Oostcr Schclde. Two, according to one writer, went down with all hands. Vhilc these great events were passing in FrancemScots vessels were harassing the not'thorn coasts, and two citizens of Newcastle, named YIornscy and Strothcr, fitted out two bailingors to cope with the foe. Vhat success the b;llingers had against the Scots we know not, but they took two ]?lainand vessels, laden, as was alleged, with the oneroy's property, and carried them into Shields, whence a king s officer removed them to ;Newcastle. The captors complained of this, and obtained an order to the officer to deliver to them the c;trgocs, or to state to the .Council his reasons for not doing so. The

A hund'ed other's which had been collected ct,uld n-t be utilised.

2 By hoisting "a banner of council" in the middle of the ,lnast. 'Black Book of the Admiralty.'