190 THE CALL OF THE SEA 



When night was come vpon them, there were 

 thirtie French ships, that yet had not entred the 

 battell, the which sought by couert of the night to 

 haue stolne awaie, and one of them being a mightie 

 great vessell, called the James of Deepe, would 

 haue taken awaie with hir a ship of Sandwich that 

 belonged to the prior of Canturburie ; bnt by the 

 helpe of the earle of Huntington, after they had 

 fought all the night till the next morning, the 

 Englishmen at length preuailed, and taking that 

 great huge ship of Deepe, found in hir aboue foure 

 hundred dead bodies. To conclude, verie few 

 of the French ships escaped, except some of their 

 smaller vessels, and certeine gallies with their 

 admerall Barbenoir, who in the beginning of the 

 battell got foorth of the hauen, aduising the other 

 capteins to doo the like, thereby to auoid the 

 danger which they wilfullie imbraced. There died 

 in this battell fought (as some write) on mid- 

 summer dale, in the yeare aforesaid, of French- 

 men to the number of 30,000, of Englishmen 

 about 4000, or (as other haue that liued in those 

 daies) not past 400, amongst whom there were 

 foure knights of great nobilitie, as sir Thomas 

 Monhermere, sir Thomas Latimer, sir John Boteler, 

 and sir Thomas Poinings. 



It is said also, that the king himselfe was hurt in 

 the thigh. The two English ships that had beene 

 taken the yeere before, the Edward and the 



