guese goods on board; I and complaints on the subject were made

to Henry VIII.

To Lords Thomas ahd Edward Hoard, the two sons of Thomas, Earl of Surrey, and subsequently second Duke of Norfolk, was apparently entrusted the duty of dealing with this piratical adventurer. According to the generally received account, they were assigned by the king two ships for the purpose; but Colliber, a thougit he does not stv on what authority, states that these young noblemen fitted out two vessels at their own charges. Lord Edward Howard, the younger of the two brothers, had beeu knighted for his bravery in the expition against Kleve-I{avensin, and, perhaps on accomat of the experience thus gained, was appointed senior ocer.

The brothers fell iu with Barton off the (oodwin, brought him to action, and, after a determined struggle, killed him, and captured his vessels? The ballad has it that they sunk the pinnace with all on board, and took only the Lion; but the fact is that both vessels were added to the English navy.

The ballad mentions arton's use of a whistle, probably to direr his men; and adds that Lord Edward Howard, or Sir Edward, as he is commonly called, received as part of his reward Sir Andrew's jewel and chaiu. Soon afterwards, on August 15th, 1512, Lord Edward was made Lord High Admiral.; The account of his death, presently to be Wen, shows that as badge of his rank he wore a gold whistle, besides a chain of gold nobles about his neck; and it may well be that this whistle was the one which had been taken from arton, and that the practice, long continued by Lord High Admirals, of wearing a whistle as their ensign of oce, commemorated the defeat and death of the noted ,Scots seaman.

Hall, L 15; Buchanan, xiii. 424, 425; Leslie, ' De 11eb. Ilest. Se,,t.' viii. 855. a Suny, on hearing the complaints, remarked that "The k'at;ow ,Seas shouhl not ., infested while he had estate enough to furnish a ship, ,,r a son capable of commanding it." Lloyd's ' $ate Wvthies,' 148. a , Colnuma Rostrata,' 4. Surrey's w,,rds quoted in the note above seem to indicate that he fitted out the vessels. Stowe, 489, says that the Lioa struck to L,,rd Thoas. tierbert's 'Life of Henry YIII.' 7, says that h-th shil,s we bught into the Thames ,,n August 2nd, 15tl. Lord Edward Howard, second son of the luke of N,,rfolk. lie hal served with Sir Edward Poynings in the expMiti, m against $1uis in 14. llenry VI lk made hiln his standard-bearer (Pat. 1 lien. VIII. p. 1, m. 24). He fell in action, as will be en. tie h maied Alice, daughter of William Lovel, Lord Morley.

Pat. 4 lien. VIII. p. 2.