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Holbein, seems to be the most trustworthy, although it does not

represent the vessels which actually convoyed YIenry, but, rather those vessels which would have convoyed him. had the harbonrs where the king embarked and disembarked been deep enough tl, admit them. The following account of Volpe's picture, which is of

T/hE HENR GRACE DIEU? (from a stpposcd co& mlorartt ncl. form rlff in Canterbury CatbaD'al. itw bl tbr ,lean and cl, apkr to .4dmral & the FIc t, Sir Jvh .rris. By kind pcrtlissiol d H. C..l'ri, Esq.)

necessity here reproduced on a very diminished scale, and does not, therefore, show details with great clearness, xill assist the student. ()f it Pepys says: "I came a little too late (to receive the Com-n,union at 5Vhitehall), so I walked np into the house, and spent my time in looking over pictures, particularly the ships in King Henry '1II.'s voyage to Bullaen, marking the great difference

between those built then and now."

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