her her captain, Sir George Carew, and all hands, except about thirty-five persons. This awful catastrophe was witnessed from the shore, not only by the king, but also by Lady Carew, the wife of the gallant and unhappy commander.

French historians are almost unanimous iu r;sserting that the Mar!/Rose was sunk in action, some, as Du Bellay, attributing the result to gun-shot, and others, as Gurin and other modern writers, claiming the ship as the victim of thc galleys of Polain. There is not a shadow of doubt that she perished as has been related, before she had an opportunity of getting into action.

The wind was too light to enahlc the English ships to manceuvre properly; and, as the French galleys did not depend upon wind, they were able to inflict a certain amount of annoyance, especially upon the Hc'!/ Grace & Diets. But the armed boats of the fleet and the row-barges made a good fight with the enemy until, late in the day, the wind freshened. The galleys were then driven off, and, had not I)'Anncbaut moved to their assistance, would have suffered heavily. No serious effort, however, was made to engage the main force of the French' and once more the English spent a night a. mong the shoals.

On July 2(Ith, the French landed men at three sep;rate places in the Isle of NVight and plundered some villages, but were easily driven off. Soon afterwards the whole fleet withdrew, coasting as far as Dover, landing at Brighton and zXewhaven, but being repulsed there; and then crossing to Boulogne, near which place D'Anncbaut put ashore four thousand soldiers and three thousand workmen to assist in the long-deferred siege.

An easterly wind presently drove D'Amiebaut from off Boulogne, and obliged him to anchor near the English coast, probably some- where off the Sussex shore. By that time Lord Lisle, his fleet reinforced to one hundred sail, was cruising in the Channel, and, on August 15th, sighted the enemy to leeward. i)'Annebaut had

exl,erience of gUnl,orts, they shouhl have been cut so low, since she (the M, trg ha,l been rel,uilt in or 1,cibre 1531;. M,,re,,ver, Alth,,ny' dnwings show them to have been 1,ieed very much higher in other vessels." The ' Li of Sir Peter tktct, attributes the disaster to the insul.,rdination and ,lisoaler which reigned ,m boahi. Yet still, the l,,rt-sills laay have been low, and even lower than riofinal, and so may have conduced to the accident. When the D,&e qf l'lliyhm lel Spithead during the Russian war, her h,wer port-sills, owing to the extra men and stt,lS t,n b,,ard, were little more above water thal those of the Mtry R,,se are alleged to have been.

' Lil ,,f Sir Peter ('arew' (M:tclean),