c;stles or towers, but Henry's strongholds v/ere, for the most p,rt, much finer coast alefences than hd previously been seen iu England. The sums thus spent may be regarded as hviug been to lrge

extent wasted; for, even in those days, they might have been

('11ART OF THAMES MOUTI[ l. (From oqgitml i the lOSSCssion of the' Marques qf ,S'ali.bury. Copied by pc'mis.lon.)

better advantage ssigned to the increase of the fleet; but in n ge when ships were much more at the mercy of the vinds and wves than they were when the rt of nvigation had somewhtt fm'ther

progressed, it would perhaps have been iujudicious of the govern-