who from a top had thrown himself, fully armed, into tile sea. The shil,s of Diel,l'e were in great danger, when they were very opportunely succoured by three or 5mr Breton ships beh,nging to Croisic, which made chase after the enelny. The English fleet took to flight, and was followed u 1, as flu- as tile eoa.t of England." Portzmoguer appears in many French histories as "lrimoguet"; and Hubert Veille, the continuator of Robert Gaguin, latinises hin as Primangaius. The fight of the Cordelii're, like that of the Veugcur in 1794, and of our own Revenge in 1591, has, thanks to patriotism, poetry, and vulgar tradition, been clouded over with the rosy mists of myth, and has become a naval legend. So much so is this the case that, although the French fleet in modern days has always included a vessel supposed to be named after the gallant captMn of the Cm'dclire, he is commemorated, nbt as Portzmomr, but as Primaugqmt. Little or nothing was done dm'ing the winter, it being then and long afterwards the opinion of naval officers that it was almost madness to attempt to keep fleets of heavy ships at sea between the end of autmnn and the begimfing of spring. t But in March, 1513, the Lord High Adnfiral sailed agMu for the coasts of Brittany, with forty-two men-of-war, besides small craft. Among his captains were Sir John Vallop, Sir Thomas Cheyne, Lord Ferrets, a Sir Henry Sheri)urn, Sir William Sydney, Sir Villiam Fitz-Willimn, Sir Edward Echyngham, Sir Richard Cromwell, Stephen Bull, Compton, and others. The inmediate object of the expedition seems to have been to clear the seas in order to permit Henry himself to pass over to k'rance and perso. nally conduct the campMgn there. Upon arriving off Brest, Lord Edward leanit that the French fleet lay within ready to sail, and awaiting only the appearance from the Mediterranean of the galleys s under Prgent de Bidoux. blockaded the enemy, who, to protect himself, threw up batteries on each side of the harbour, and drew across it four-and-twenty hulks 1 This was the view even of Sir Clowdisley 8hoell at tile beginning of tile eighteenth century.

Sir J,,hn Walb,p was made a K.G. in 1344. Ite died in the fifth year of 

Edward VI. s Sir Walter Devcreux, K.G. lie was the thi,'d Bar-n Fetters, and in 1550 was created Viscount Herek, rd.

$,,n o Sir Th,,mas Fitz-William, Kt., was knighted after thc siege of Tournay, 

and was w,,unded off Brest in tile actiml of 1513. In 15:1; he was ma, lc Lord High Admiral and Earl ,f S,,uthaml,tc, n. He died a K.;. in 154:1. ;

a As noted ab,.,ve, they do not al,pear to have arrived in 1512.