already weighed, aud most of the d;ty was spent in lmmruvring for the weather gauge which the English eventually lost; whereupon the galleys under Polain attatcked, hut were not properly supported by their consorts; and, the wind increasing considerably towards night, the galleys knocked about so nmch and shipped so many seas that they were in danger not less of foundering than of being taken. The skill of Pol;dn, the best galley commander of his age, savcd them; and although firing continued until dark, little &uuage was done on either side. This ds-not prevent ])u ellay from declaring that in the morning the French saw a number of dead bodies and much wreckage floating on the water. Night scpantcd the combatants. The English returned to Portsmouth, and the French, who had undoubtedly gained the honours of the went to Le H&vre. The indignities thus put upon England were in prt revenged by Lisle, who, crossing to the coast of Normandy, hmded 6000 meu near TrYport on September nd, defeated the French forces opposed to him, burnt the town, the abbey, and thirty ships in harbour, losing only fourteen men, and went back unmolested to Spithead. All this time the plague was raging to a ten'ible extent iu Lisle's fleet. The number of men who returned from Trd, port xws 12,. This was about the 4th or 5th of September. Some wc sub- sequently discharged, but it is clear from the tone of letter written on September llth by Lisle, Seymour, and Lord St. Johu (who reported that thirteen out of thirty-four. ships were then infected) th;;t the disease was very virulent; and musters taken on the 12th showed that only 84 men remtdued fit for duty? This numl)er was on that dy further reduced by discharges to 6445, number far too small for the exigencies of the service, even on the brink of winter, for as Lisle and St. John lamented, "the men fall daylie sick." The discharges, however, were very necessary'. Hussell, writing to the Council from Exer on August 2nd, when the fleet ws still fully manned, s;dd, alluding to the Devon and Dorset fishermen, "Many of them, or the nmst p;rt, are taken from hence as mariners to serve the kiug, and all the coast here (is) so barren of them that "8. P. 1 om. i. 815.

Sir William Paulet lad been created L,r4 St..l,hn in 153k hi 1545 he was 

made Lt,rd Steward: in 1550 Earl tf Wiltshire, and in 1551 Manluis f Wim.hcstcr. He died a K.(;. in 1572.

S. P. Dt,m. i. .

Ib, i. 833.