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dawned the wrecks of half the fleet were strewn along the beach, 
and the natives were murdering the crews. That portion of the 
fleet which escaped shipwreck was driven three days’ march from 
the starving army, which, surrounded by swarms of Moorish 
cavalry, had to make its way against repeated attacks, (every 
loiterer and every wounded man being speared,) to the transports,” 
Chaloner’s account of his narrow escape from death is published 
in Hakluyt’s Collection of Voyages, in the following words, (the 
original, in Latin, may be found in the Introduction to his De 
Republica Anglorum Instauranda): “The galley in which he was, 
being either dashed against the rocks, or shaken with the mighty 
storm and cast away, after he had saved himself a long time by 
swimming, when his strength failed him, his armes and handes 
being. faint and weary, with great difficulty laying hold with his 
teeth on a cable which was cast out of the next galley, not without 
breaking and loss of certain of his teeth, recovered himself and 
returned home to his own country in safety.” On the return home 
of Sir Henry Knyvett and himself, the former in the same year 
married Anne, the great heiress of Moresby and other vast estates, 
and widow of the Sir Francis Weston I have mentioned ; and by 
her had two sons, the youngest of whom, Sir Henry Knyvett, 
heired from his mother the great estate of Escrigg, in Yorkshire. . 
Chaloner upon his return was promoted to the office of Head 
Clerk of the Council by Henry VIII. From this time till the 
battle of Musselburgh we hear nothing of him; but his sympathies 
with the cause of the Reformed Faith were sure to lead him to 
the party of the Lord Protector, and accordingly we find him 
distinguishing himself in an extraordinary manner at that fight, or 
rather scene of slaughter; for the Scotch were in the position of 
the French at Agincourt—encumbered with their own numbers. 
In company with Edward Seymour, eldest son of the Protector, 
Hugh Askew (who subsequently got a grant of Seaton Priory, near 
Bootle), Ralph Vane, and Ralph Sadler, Thomas Chaloner was 
knighted for his gallantry on the battlefield, which, Holinshed tells 
us, was strewn with swords, pikes, and lances, as thick as rushes 
ina chamber, He also obtained, as a reward of his valour on this 
