Brandon, with Sir Henry Guildford. In each case both officers

were called captain; so that in the arrangement we may distinguish a foreshadowing of the nodcrn practice of appointing a comraander as well as a captfin to a large man-of-war. Other cptfins in the fleet were Sir Anthony Oughtred, Sir Edward Echyngham, and William Sydney. Howard, with his reinforced fleet, made the mouth of Camiret B:y on August 10th, just as the French fleet of thirty-nine sail was corntug out. Grafton, his spelling toodemised, shall continue the sto W . "When fi,c E,,glishmen," he says, "l,erceivcd the French navy to be out of Brest Haven, then the Lord Admiral was very joyous; then every man prcparcll according to his duty, the archers to shoot, the gunners o loose, the men of a,'ms to tight. The pages went to the topcastle with darts. Thus, all firings being provided and set in order, the Englishmen approached towards the Frenchmcn, which came fiercely tLrward, some leaving his anchor, some with his fol'esail only, to take the most advantage; and when they were in sight, they shot ordnance so terrihly togethe,' that all t.le sea c-ast sounded of it. The Lord Adotirol made with the great slnp of Dieppc, and chased her still. Sir Henry Guihlfi,rd and Sir Charles Brandon, being in the ,gorere'g,, made with the great carrack of Brest" (Mm'ie la Cm'deli;re) "and lay stem to stem with the carrack; but by negligence of the master, or else by smoke of the onlnancc, or ofimrwise, the Soeerefgn was cast at the stern ,,f the carrack, with which advantage the Frenchmel shouted for joy; lint when Sir Thomas Knyvett, which was ready to have hoarded the great ship tf Dieppc, saw that the Sorereig had nfissed the carrack which Sir Henry Oughtred chased hard at lle stern and bowged" (ranlnled) "her in divers places, and set afire her powder as some say, suddenly the l&e,,t grappled with her along hoard; and wllen they of the carrack perceived that they could not depart, they let slip an anchor, and so with the stream the ships turned, and the carrack was ,,n the weather side, and the I,'eget on the lee side. The fight was very cruel, for the archers of the English part, and the crossbows t,f the French ,m't, did their uttermost; but, fir all that, the Englishmen entered tile carrack, which seeing, a vatlet gininet, being despro;ate, put fire in the gunpowder, as others say, and set the whole ship of fire, the flame whereof set fire in the 12�e(; and so these two n-ble ships, which were so gral,pled together that they could n,,t part, were consumed hy fire. The French navy, perceiving this, fled in all haste, some to Brest, and some to the isles adjoining. The English, in manner dismayed, sent ont boats to help then in the RcgeM; bnt the fire was so great that no man dared appr,,ach; saving that, by the J,t,,es, of Hull, were certain Frenchtach that could swiln saved. This burning the carrack was hal,py fir the French navy, or else they had been better assailed .f the Englishnlen, which were so aluazed with this chance that tile)' fll,,xve, l thein n,,t. The captain ,,f this carrack was Sir Piers M,,rgan, and with him nine hundred men

Created Viscount Lisle in 151.'I, and Duke of Suffolk in 151 I. IIe was also a 

KJI. He died in 1545. 2 S-n of Sir llichar, I GuildiYrd, of lietaste, I, who ha,l been Master of the }rdnance nnder 11-em 3' VII. Sir Ilenry died a K.G., 2: 11cnry VIII. s Sydney. rill,, was knighted at about this tiloe, became chamherlain and steward to Ilcnry VIII, and died at the end -f the reign of Edward VI.

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