gtmrd, with halberts. Two trtunpeters, sounding their trumpets,

sit on the break of the poop, and two more are on the break of the forecastle. On both forecastle and poop are many yeomen of the guard. Beneath the break of the forecastle are shown, par D per pale Argent and Vert, within the garter, the aqus of England and France, quarterly crowned; the supporters, a lion and a dr;tg()n, being those then used by the king. The same arms appear n the stern. On each side of the rudder is porthole, showing the muzzle of a brass gun. The figure-head seems to represent a lion. Under the stern is a boat, htvin.g at her head two banners ()f ,qt. George, and at her stern the same. Two yeomen of the guard. and other persons are in her. Both ster} and forecastle

CICLVERIN BASTARD, XV1TH CENTICIIY. are two decks higher than the waist, which itsell' appears to be two clear decks above the water.

Four other ships, all large, are shown in the picture. The king's squadron actually consisted of the (;rest B, rk, the Less Bo']', the Katherine Plcasaunce, the Vtry and John, and two row barges, all comparatively small craft; lut the painter obviously shows ns some of the crack ships of the time. The xisit to France was paid in Henry's twelfth 5'ear. In the thirteenth year of his reign, 15-22, according to a Iq,% in l'epys' Miscellanies, the five largest slips in the English navy, with their tonnage, were as follows: Henry Grace de Dieu, 1500; - Sovereign, 800; (;.briel Boy. l, 650; Mary Ilose, 600; s and lf. tbcrine Fortclcza, 550; and it is very probable that these five vessels are the five depicted. On

Most authorities, however, agree that the tonnage was but 1000. The more probal,le tonnage of all these ships will be ft,md in the table printed i.JYa, 1'- 41t.

a l']lse here generally dscribed as vf 500 tons.