newly captured fortress, and, after having accomplished that service, to lie iu mid-Channel, and, "if opportunity may serve thereunto, appoint a convenient uumhcr of the snmli shallops and other small vessels to pass iu the River Estaplcs" (the Canche) "and there hurn and hring away such vessels of the cuemy as may he there found, or do other such annoyauce to the enemy s the time will serve." If the ships iu the Canche couhl not he attacked, other annoyance might he caused on the coasts of Normandy. Finally, after leaving a certain number of ships to cruise in the Channel, Seymour was to return to Portsmouth for more supplies for Iouloe. ,Seymour proceeded at once, and on Novemher 6th wrote from off l)over to the Privy Council titat he had quitted the mouth of tile Orwell in a fog; that he had learnt of seventeen men-of-w;;r heing at Etapies; that the pl;;ce was difficult to approach, and more difficult to get out of; and that he hegged to be allowed to operate instead upon the coasts of l?,rittany. Permission to attack Irittany was given, provided P, oulogne was first attended to, and fore'teen ships were left to guard the Narrow Seas; a hut, in the meanwhile, Seymour was driven kom Dover hy. a; gale. He tried to make 12,oulogne, hut ;vas carried too f;u' to tile westward; and then, hearing that seventeen sail of the enemy lay iu Dieppe, and seveuteen more in the Seine, determined to attack them. /ut the gale veered to E.S.E., and he was ohliged to ahaudon his design. With much difficulty, and with the loss of all his hoats, he reached the shelter of the Isle of Xh'ight? Henry wrote angrily to Seymour on Novetuher 1.qth; hut the sailor returned a straightforward explanation, and the king was sat.isfied? The supplies, however, did not go to lqoulogne that winter. This loss of the valuable fortress spurred Frauce to great exertions. Francis I. concentrated his whole availahle western fleet. on the coasts of Xormandy under Glattde d'Annehaut, ;tron de Retz and Admiral of France, and reinforced it in 1545 with twenty-

S. P. l)om. i. 772. a lb., i. 773. s lb., i. 774. 
lb. i. 771q. A transport, witi 25. -ttt of 300 souls -n b,ard, wm lost. Another 

transl,,,rt , nnder Sir Ilenry Seymour, went ashore at lartmouth, but her people were all saved except three. a Pat. Rolls, 3; lien. VIII. 23, where eymour is given a grant of land on

January l�;lh, 1545.