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SO that when the king of England approched, 

 either part descried other, & therewith prepared 

 them to battell. The king of England staied, till 

 the sunne which at the first was in his face, came 

 somewhat westward, and so had it vpon his backe, 

 that it should not hinder the sight of his people, 

 and so therewith did set vpon his enimies with 

 great manhood, who likewise verie stoutlie in- 

 countered him, by reason whereof insued a sore 

 and deadlie fight betwixt them. The nauies on 

 both sides were diuided into three battels. On 

 the English part, the earles of Glocester, North- 

 ampton, and Huntington, who was admerall of 

 the fleet that belonged to the cinque ports, and the 

 lord Robert Morley, admerall of the northerne 

 nauie, had the guiding of the foreward, bearing 

 themselues right valiantlie, so that at length the 

 Englishmen hauing the aduantage, not onlie of 

 the sunne, but also of the wind and tide, so 

 fortunatlie, that the P'rench fleet was driuen into 

 the streights of the hauen, in such wise that 

 neither the souldiers nor mariners could hclpe 

 themselves, in somuch that both lieauen, sea, and 

 wind seemed all to haue conspired against the 

 Frenchmen. And herewith manie shi|)s of Flan- 

 ders ioining tlicmsclucs with the English fleet, in 

 the end the Frenchmen wore van(|uislied, siainc 

 and taken, their ships being also cither taken 

 bowged, or broken. 



