a stone accidentally dropped as it ;vas being hauled up into

the top of his own vessel. In the action Sir BMdwin le Strange also fell?

The ccount of this little fi;;ir is of interest s afibrding an erly illustration of the superiority of one large vsel over numbcr of smaller ones of, probably, greter gegte force.

A four months' truce having been concluded with France in Ocber, 1411;, z Henry returned with a small squadron to Dover. ]Early in 1417, preparations were mde for n expedition to Nor- mandy; ships ;vere rrested; md fifteen hundred vcssels, sixtn thousand four hundred soldiem, nd one thousand workmen ;vere assembled at Southampton for the king's passage? The vessels of the western ports ;vere directed to proceed to se under Sir Thomas Care;v, the Sire de Chestilion, and Sir John Mortimer, nd to cruise from 5Iarch 1st to November 1st, against French, Bretons, Castillians, Genoese, nd Scots, unless orders were given to the contrary. Carew's squadron consisted of an unnamed ship crTing seventy-five men-at-arms and one hundred and forty-eight rchers, the ldng's gret can'ck, ced the Mo'y ' the Tower, of 500 tons, the "other carrck of Venice," the barge Katlwrinc qf Salisbury, the "ul&y's barge," the Ellen qf Grccnwicb, of 180 tons, the .'lntbony, Cptain Robert Carew, the Trinity of the Tower, of 102 tons, t;vo ballinge of Trebost and Plymouth respectively, nd Sir Thomas Care;v's own barge, the Trinity. The fleet of the Cinque Ports was called out in 5Iarch; a and in April the assemblage of ships at Southampton was hastened, the passage thither being apparently deemed somcwhat perilous by the shipmasters owing to the large force of the enemy th;t ws at se?

Up to the last moment, Hem'y, as in the previous year, intended to lead the fleet in person; but he suffered himself to be dissuaded; s and in July, he appointed Edmund, Erl of 5Iarch, to be his lieutenant on the sea, to bring back the fiee from Normandy, and to return thither ;vith reinforcements, and John, Earl of Huntingdon, to cruise with all the usual powe of an admiral2

Ehuham, 88, 8t; Anon. Uhr-n. in A,ld. MSS. 1776, L 70b. 'Fdera,' ix. 31ll, 40). a Ehuham, ; An,n. Chr,,n. in Add. MSS. 1776, L 72. Pro. and h'd. of Privy C, unci], ii. 20. luster Ib,ll ' E. B. 1626' at Carltt,n Ride, cited by ico]as; Issue Rolls, Eastcr Term, 4 Hen. V. s Close Rt,lls, 5 Hen. V. m. 17. Issue R,lls, 4 Hen. V. 351 (Devon).

s Eham, 92. Patent Rolls, 5 Hen. V. m. 22.