of 1545, when tbout two hundrcd ships were hotly engaged at chse

qu,rtcrs for two hours, there were not less than three hundred camion-shot fired on hoth sides. ])u Bell[y, as a military con- temporary, no doubt xvrote wh}t wts quite true; hut he probtthly included only the shots thrown from the hetvicr guns engagcd, paid no attenti,n to the fire of light pieces. Still, the expenditure

A ENOESE CARRACK. (Fro.: ('harnock, who says that it is copied.from an original drawDt9 .tadc i. 1452.)

ws remrtbly smdl, and it camot have permitted the heaviest uns to be discharged more thm twice or thrice apiece. The seamen of the period had not, however, hegun to depend exclusively, nor even chiefly, upon fil'earms :s thvir weapms of offence, ud this bundntly al,l,vars from the fact that, alllOllg the storcs of the Hc. ry Grace Dica were 500 bows of yew, ten gross of how-

Though another contemporary says that not kss than 300 guns were engaged.