side. The duke, on his surrender, was sent to the Tower. The

king died at Richmond on April 22rid, 1509.

Henry VIII. came to the throne, a hndsome and accomplished yotmg mn, in his eightnth year. He ws s able s his father, but in every other respect utterly unlike him. Generous, genial, and fond of musemen nd display, he ws lso intensely mbitious; nd, s his treasury ws full, and the state of Europe ws troubled, he ws ble to indulge his inclinations.

In the second year of his reim he joined Ferdinand of pin and Maximilian of Germany in the Holy League ginst Lotils XIL of France; and, about the middle of My, dispatched body of thousmd rchers under Thomas, ord d'Arcy, to co-operate with Ferdinand gainst the Ioors. The expedition left lymouth, escorted by four men-of-war, and lnded t Cdiz on June 1st. Its mere ppernce ws sucient to secure the objects for which it had been demanded. The Moors mde terms with the king, nd the English, dismissed with presents, rettmed, without fighting, about August2

In July of the same year, nother force of fiftn hundred men, under Sir Edward l'wnings, ws sent into Flnders to assist the Duke of m'gundy ginst the Duke of Gelderlnd. After effecting the desired ends, it retned with small loss and much honom'?

ut by fr the most impon nvl event of 1511 ws the action off the Goodwin with the fmous Scotsmn, Andrew arton. arton hd obtained from his sovereign letters of marque and reprisals ginst the l'ortuese, who were alleged to hve killed his father, nd seized his fther's ship, nd who had afforded no stisfction for the outrage. rton hd thereupon equipped two vessels, the Lions, crrying thirty-six, nd the J'et.Perwy, a "pinnace" or tender, carwing thiy guns, if we my trust the popular Elizfi)ethn blld on the subject? The one seems to hve hd upwards of t'ee hundred, nd the other, one hundred nd eighty men on board. ut, under pretext of cruising ginst the Portuguese, Brton seized nd phmdered mny neutral vessels, including English ones, under the prence that they had Portu-

Hulinshed, ii. 802; Hall, 11. Grafton, 958; Co.per, 274; St-we, 488.

a Their gun strength, tinless the gtms were extremely small, must [ g'eatly extgge'ate,l i tile I)allad, tbr the tonnage of the vsels was but 120 and 70 resl,ectively.