Barton, again became a fugitive. He was leading a prcc:rious

existence in h'ehtnd, when he was inxitcd by some raMcontents of Cornwall and Devonshire to join them. Ou ,cptembcr 27th, 14, he accordingly arrivcd in Vhitsmd By, near Penzance, with four small vessels, nd landed with a few followers. He took St. Michael's Mount. gathered as many as three thousand men, and laid siege to Exeter; but on the approach of Giles, Lord l)aubcney, with the royal forces, he fled to Taunton, and subsequently to Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire, where, on October 5th, he surrendered himself. His life was spared, and he was generously treated, until repeated attempts to escape, and particip;tion in a plot with the Earl of Varwick, led to his execution in 1499.

During the earlier years of the reign of Henry VII. there were fewer examples than might have been expected of piracy and unofficial warfare in the Nrrow Seas; and in 14., the year of Varbeck's surrender, England and Fnmce came to an agreement which had the effect of rendering such proceedings less common than ever, especiMly in time of nominal peace between the two countries. A treaty w;;s signed, in pursuance of which shipowners were required, ere sending their vessels to sea, to furnish good and efficient bail th;;t they would ohseyre the peace.

Iu the year 1500, the plague then rang in London, the king and his family ;vent to Calais, arriving there on 5I;;y 8th, and returning about the end of June. Thereafter, until the death of Hemry, there were few events which, by any stretch of the imagination, can be associated with naval afikirs. The voyages and explorations undertaken during the reign are separ;;tely dealt with elsewhere; and it only remains to note that when, in 150i;, I'hilip of Austria, who had succeeded to the kingdom of Castille, and who was on the way, with his queen, from the Netherlands to ,'4p;tin, was driven by had weather into Veymouth, and, contnu' to the advice of his suite, ventured ashore, he was speciously detained by Henry, under various polite pretexts, until he h;d consented to renewal, very advantageous for England, of the treaty of commerce between the two countries, z and had engaged to deliver up Edmund de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, a who had fled the kingdom, and who, being a nephew of Edward IV., was a possible thorn in Henry's

Sixth Baron Daubeney. He died a K.;. in 1507. a , Fccdcra,' xiii. 142.

a Stowe, 484; Holinshed, ii. 7't3; Bacon's ' Ilist. Henry VI I.' ii. 350.