KING HENRY VI.'S STATUTE a.d. 



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A note touching the mighty ships of King 

 Henry the fift, mentioned hereafter in the 

 treatie of keeping the Sea, taken out of a 

 Chronicle in the Trinitie Church of Win- 

 chester. 



quintl. 



Odem Anno quo victoria potitus est videlicet 

 Anno Domini 141 5. & regni sui Anno tertio, 

 post bellum de Agencourt, conducti a Francis 

 venerunt cum multis Navibus recuperaturi Harfletum. 

 Sed Rex Angliae misit fratrem suum Johannem Ducem 

 Bedfordiae & Andegaviae, qui pugnavit cum eis & vicit, [I. 186.] 

 & Naves cepit, & quasdam submersit : caeteri fugerunt 

 cum Hispanis navibus qui venerant cum eis Anno gratiae 

 141 6. Sequent! vero Anno redierunt potentiores, & 

 iterum devicti perpetuam pacem cum Rege compo- 

 suerunt, & propter eorum naves fecit Rex fieri naves 

 quales non erant in mundo. De his sic conductis a 

 Francis ita metrice scribitur. 



Regum belligero trito celeberrimus arvo Naves maxi- 



Gallos, Hispanos, Janos, devicit, & Urget, 

 Vastat ; turbantur csetera regna metu. 

 Navali bello bis devicti quoque Jani. 



A branch of a Statute made in the eight yeere 

 of Henry the sixt, for the trade to Norwey, 

 Sweveland, Denmarke, and Fynmarke. 



I Tern because that the kings most deare Uncle, the 

 king of Denmarke, Norway & Sweveland, as the 

 same our soveraigne Lord the king of his intimation 

 hath understood, considering the manifold & great 

 losses, perils, hurts and damage which have late hap- 

 pened aswell to him and his, as to other foraines and 

 strangers, and also friends and speciall subjects of our 

 said soveraigne Lord the king of his Realme of England, 

 by ye going in, entring & passage of such forain & 

 strange persons into his realme of Norwey & other 



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