slain and dead. And with Sit' Tln.mas Knyvett and Sir Jt,hn Uarew, seven hundred

allen drowned and burnt; and that night all the Englishmen lay in Bartran" (Bertheaulne) "Bay, fi, r the French fleet was dispersed as you have heard."

Such was the English account. .ks might he expected, the French accounts bore somewhat different complexion; nd it is perhaps hut fair to append ]Monsieur Gurin's summary of them, although it must be premised that he attributes the battle to wrong year, t that in some other particulttrsl his story is dellOll- strably incorrect, and that the entire description is obviously rather picturesque than historical in its mode of expression.

"Tile English fleet," he says, "appeared on Artgust lth ,,ff Saint Mah -r Saint Mathten, at the extremity of the peninsuht ,,f Brittany. Tile French fleet. which was ch'.'efly comp,,sed of N,rman and Breton vessels, was inferior in nunfler by -he-half, anti, m.reovcr, believing tile enemy to be well occnpied in Picardy, was taken nnawares. The presence of mind -f the leaders conq,ensated for the awkwardness the moment; their courage and that of their lnen t-ok the place ,ff numbers. The French fleet, which l'rdgent de Bidoux had hurried to join with Iris galleys, a was careful to retain tile advantage of the wind, and it paid its attention s,,lely to boarding, smashing or sinking about half the encmy's vessels. In the midst nf this general Frorich attack, there was to be n,,ted ab.ve all others a large and beautiful carrat.k, decorated snperbly, and as daintily as a queen. :4he, of herself, had ah'eady sunk shin,st as many h,,stile vessels as all the rest of the fleet: and now she fi,nnd herself surrounded by twelve -f the 1,rincipal English shil,s , which bad c,mbine,l all their efiLrts against her. :4he was the Marie la Uo.rdclil. re, which ..Ulle of lh'ittany, Qneen ,,f France, had caused to be built at great o,st at M,,rlaix, and the C-lmnand of which she had entrusted to tile gallant Portzmoguer, the worthtest Bret,,n ,'aptsin nf his day. The ('orddt're, alone among so many fi,es, struggled with a courage which was aim-st miraculons. lf the twelve vessels surroulding her, she l,ut several ollt of action and drove off s,,me more. A large l';nglish shi,p, o,nmmndcd by ,'Sir Uharles Brandon, bad been C,,lnpletely dismasted 1,y lhe gun-fire of tile ('orddi'rc, whose triulnph was on tile point of being assured, when, from the t-p of a hostile vessel, there was flung into her a mass of fireworks, the flame fro which instantly t,,,,k hold of her. S,,me of lbe soldiers and seamen were able to save themselves in boats, but Ual,tain l',.rtzmoguer, after having given every one the option of relinquishting a light which now seeme,l h.peless, declined, in spite of the entresties of Iris l,e,,ple, t, avail himself .f the chance, open to him also, of saving his life. His life xxas entirely b.nnd np with the existence of the vessel which had been so specially entrusted t,, him the queen: the one was to end with the other. :4uddenly tile (.ordeliSre sighted tile l,'cgeut, of 1000 t, ms, in which Tllolnas Knyvett, sqnire to Henry VIII.. fulfilled tile functi, ms of vice-admiral of England; and, like a floating volcano, b,,re d.wn, a huge incendiary torch. upon her, pitilessly gralq,led her, and w,und her in her ,,wn flaming r,,be. The p.wder magazine of the l;*ed blew Ul, , and with it the h,,slile ship, her e, mnnander, and th,,usands of burnt and mangled limbs went into tile air; while the t'ord�.lire, satisfied, and still proud amid the disaster, hlew np also, and, a wldrl of fire and smoke, vanished beneath tile waves, like her imnn, rtal Captain l',,l'tzmogue, 151.�,, as Daniel and other French ]fist,,rians also do.

It is extremely doubt tiff, h,,wever, whether l'r6gent did join at all that year.