The Swec]stake' and Mar!] Fortune were huilt in 1497, and were

small craft, each with three lower masts, a mdn top-mast, and sprit-sil on the bowspit. a One had eighty and the other sixty oars, for tl s swaps.

The liegcnt, the principal wrship, bequeathed to Henry VIII. by his father, ws, as will be seen ][er, burnt in the action off rest, on Augus 10th, 151fl, and it would ppear tha6 it was as subs[itnte for her tha6 the famous Henry Grace de Dieu was lid down at Erith in the course of the autumn of the same year. On June 13th, 1514, the not extravagan6 sum of 6s. 8d. was offered at her "hallowing," a from which fac it my he concluded that she was then luuched; and in the course of the following year she seems to hve been completed for sea. Vi]lim ond, the master-shipwright who buil6 her under BTgandine's direction, is supposed [o hve been the first mas6er-shipwrigh[ of the oyal gvy. A MS. Augmentation Oce account, quoted by Charhock, indicates that in Novemher, or Dccember, 1514, she was moved from Erith [o arking Crk by party which included twenty-one seamen who hd been discharged from he Lizard, each of whom received 8d. for his share of the work.

Several alleged representations of this interesting ship exist, and some of them re reproduced here. One is found in a picttwe which ;vas long bragging in Canterhury Cathedral, and which was presented to Sir John 'orris, Admiral of the Fleet, by the dean red chapter. It is still in the posmssion of Sir John's descendants, and was exhibited at the Royal Naval Exhibition, 1891. Another occurs in the picture hy Volpe of the emharkation of Henry VIII. at /9over on May 31st, 15, to meet rancis I. on the Field of the Cloth of Gold. This picture, the property of the Crown, is at Hampton Court Palace. Another occurs in the well-known drawing preserved in the Pepysian collection at Camhridge. And there are two models in the museuln at Greenwich. The authenticity .f these last was, however, so much doubted by the models committ of the N;;val Exhibition, that they ;vere merely descrihcd in the catalogue as probably rcpremnting large ships of the sixteenth century. Upon the whole, Volpe's picture, long ascribed to

Re-named ffGttherine Pomegranate under Henry VII [. Nay. Accts. and Inventories of 11eury VIL (Ol,penheim), pref. xxvii. Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII. pp. 1464, 1165. llecurd Office.

Charnuk, ii. 43.