Admiral hindered the carrying out of the design. Seymour was deprived of his office in January, 1549, and was beheaded on March 20th. Open war with Frauce was resumed in 1549. Henry II. attacked t3oulogne; and Leo Strozzi, with twelve galleys convoy- mg transports ;vith two thousand troops, blockaded Jersey and Guernsey. It ;;'as then that Captain William Wynter, who, under Elizabeth, showed himself to be a commander of unusual M)ility, first began to build up his reputation, although he had served as early as 1544 dnriug the operations in the Firth of Forth. Entrusted with a small squadron and eight hundred soldiers, he, in spite of his inferior force, so boldly attacked Strozzi that he took or burnt all his galleys, killed a thousand of his men, and drove the rest of the expedition ignominiously back to France. x It is but just to add that the French histories contMu no meution of this affair. They do, however, assert that on August 1st, 1549, Strozzi off t3oulogne gained a brilliant victory over an English fleet, and drove the shattered remnant of it to Guernsey; and this action is not mentioned by English writers. The evidence as to :ynter's victory is, nevertheless, too strong to be neglected; while the evidence as to the French success is exceedingly and even sus- piciously weak. There is less doubt as to the successes of the French on land. They pressed t3oulogne severely, cutting off all communication ;vith it save by sea; and by the treaty of March 14th, 15.50, a they were given possession of it and its dependencies upon payment of 400,000 crowns. I)udley, Earl of Warwick, ;vho, since October :th, 1549, had held the office of Lord High Admiral for the second time, relin- quished it on May 4th, 1.550, to Edward, Lord Clinton, who had been governor of the beleaguered fortress, and who had negotiated the treaty. The peace between England and France was very displeasing to the emperor, who, in consequence, allowed and probM)ly encouraged his Flareand subjects to cruise against the French in the English seas in a manner destructive to all security of commerce and inter- communication. Tke French naturMly retaliated, the result being

Godwin, 233; Speed, $11; Ft,x, 'Acts and M,,numents,' ii. 671; II,,linshed, 

i. 1055. a Edward's Diary; Cott,m MS. Nero, C. x. 5. s , Foldera,' xv. 211; Leonard, ii. 472.

Strype, ii. 230; Edward's Journal, 11, 13; Graftt,n, 1314.