there is no fish al,nost to be gotten here for money; but that such as we have, the women of the fisher towns, eight or nine of them, with ]Jut one boy or one man with thein, bring it in, adventuring to sail sixteen or twenty miles into the sea afishing; and have been sometimes chased home by the Frenchmen. And I myself, being upon occasion on the coast, hav seen the fisher boats brought in with women which I think hath not been seen (before)." I, 1546, the French renewed their attempts on Bonlogne, and, in order to sever the communications by land with Calais, tried to seize Ainbleteuse. But they were disappointed by the vigilance of Lord Lisle and the Earl of Hertford; and a force of nine thousand troops encamped near it for its protection. I, the spring there vere several naval skirmishes off the place; and in one of these, which occurred on May 18th, eight English men-of-war engaged an equal number of French vessels, and took a galley with one huudred and eighty soldiers and one hundred and forty rowers; but the operations were of no great importance, and they were put an end to by the conclusion of peace on June 7th? In the following year D'Annebaut, Baron de letz, came over with a large suite and with twelve galleys, to pay a state visit to England. He landed nnder salute at Tower Wharf, and, proceeding to the king at ]-Iampton Court on August h, solemnly swore in the name of his sovereign to perform the articles of peace. This was the last naval event of the reign. On January Sth, 1547, Henry VIII. died, leaving the crown to his son Edward vho was then little more thau ni,m years of age. On Febmary I7th, Sir Thomas Seymour, who was brother of Edward, Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector, and who seems to have been already n excellent terms wit the Queen Dowager, Katherine ParT, whom he married a few weeks later, was created Lord Seymour of Sudeley and Lord High Admiral.

Henry VIII. in his last years had cherished a project for the marriage of his son Prince Edward with the Princess Mary, daughter of James V. of Scotland; and he had succeeded in inducing the Scots Government to enter into an agreement that the marriage should take place. After Edvard's accession, the plan was as warmly taken up by the Lord Protector; but the idea of the

' S. P. I)(,n,., i. 827, 828.

'-' Taken into lhe navy as the G,lley tlancherd.

M,ntlnc, i. 237; Hall, 260; Dn Bellay, x.