The ]Barton affair cmsed much ill blood between Scotland and

England, and ultimately served as one of the pretexts for the invasion which ended at Flodden Field on September 9th, 1513. Henry's attitude, when James IV. rmoustrated, was "that punishing pirates was never held a breach of peace alllOllg princes."

In 1519, in fm'therance of the objects of fie Holy League, Henry YIII. fitted out a fleet of twenty vessels, nd entrusted the command of Lord Edward Howard, whom he hd made Lord High Admiral for the purpose. The immediate mission of this force was to convoy au English army, under the larquis of orset, to co-operate with King Ferdinand in the south of France. The troops were c;;rried iu Sp;mish ships; and the expedition sailed on May 16th. and reached the coast of Guipuscoa on June 8th.

As soon as the army had been landed, the Lord High Admiral proceeded on a cruise off the coasts of rittany, where he attacked several places in the neighborn'hood of Lc Conquit and rest, and burnt some shipping.

France had afloat in the same waters a force under Jean de ThnouSnel, Admiral of Brittany; another of her admirals, t'rgent de Bidoux, w;s on his way froth the Mediterranean with a re- inforcemeut of four large galleys; md a French ship of great force, the M, rie 1, ('ord'lii'rc, which Ame, Qtteen of France, had some years before caused to be built at her own cost, ha;d lately been commissioned by a noted Breton seaman, Captain Herv de Portz-moguer; and King Henry,.conscious that Howard's command was scarcely eelrod to conending with such a combination, collected wenty-five other vessels ;;t Portsmouth, and, after having himself reviewed them. dispatched them to the assistance of the corn-re;ruder-in-chief? Alnong these ships were the Regctt md the So,creig, the two finest in the service. The former was corn-in;reded by Sir Thomas Knyvett, Iaster of the Horse, with Sir John Carew as his second; and the latter by Sir Charles

Ilall, k 15b: Drmmltond, ' Hist. ,ff Five Janroses,' 130. a Pat. 4 lien. VIII. l . 2. s Hall, 17; llist. dtt !1oy. de Navarre (Chappuy), 620. Said t,, have carried 1200 men. Tile name was auntsingly Anglicised as "Sir Piers 5Iorgan." 'Holinshed, it. s15; Hall,

Sir Th,,mas Knyvett, of Buckenham, bad been ma,le a K.G. in 1509, on the occasi,,n of Henry's coronation. lie married Mul'icl, d:tughter of Thomas, Duke of N,,rlk,lk, and w!d,,w of J,_,lm G'ey, Lt,rd Lisle.