46 A D. 1513. 



cidentally fet on fire, both fliips were confumed, with all their crews * ; 

 the fisrht of which fo terrified the refi; of the French fleet, which had 

 jufi: come out of Brefi:, to the number of 39 (hips, that they all retired 

 again into that port, and fo put an end to this marine campaign ; though 

 others give a very different account of this matter, and reprefent the 

 French to have been fuperior to the Englifh fleet, which (after lofing 

 their admiral Howard) was forced to retire home. 



Under the year 151 1, we have obferved (from Hakluyt), that the 

 Englifli began to have fome commerce in the Levant fea. We now 

 find king Henry VIII appointing one Juftiniano to be mafi:er, gover 

 nor, protedor, or conful, of all the merchants and other Englifli fub- 

 jeds, in the port and ifland of Scio, or Chios, in the Archipelago, ftill 

 poflefled by the Genoefe, with powers to govern them, and receive the 

 profits of his office. This ifland is celebrated for the drug called ma- 

 fl;ic. [Fadera, V. xiii, /5. 253] 



The fame year king Henry VITI farther confirmed the privileges of 

 the company of merchants-adventurers of England, with refpedl to their 

 exportation of Englifli woollen cloths, &c. 



On the very next page of the Foedera, we find king Henry VIII en- 

 tering into a league with the emperor Maximilian, king Ferdinand of 

 Spain, and pope Leo X, againft king Louis XII of France, under the fcarce- 

 ly-fpecious fhow of defending the pope and the church, and agreeing 

 to allow I 00,000 gold crowns for fupporting this fham holy war. And 

 in the fame year i^p. 381), he ftipulates to pay 200, oco crowns to Maxi- 

 milian, for keeping up 4000 horfe and 6000 foot in the Netherlands 

 for the fame purpofe ; as alfo for enabling Henry's garrifon of Tour- 

 nay to defend that place from the French. 



A magazine and florehoufe for the royal navy was now firft eredied 

 at Deptford, near London, which has fince become a large town, more 

 populous than many corporation-towns, occafioned by the noble royal 

 docks, ftorehoufes, dock-yards, wharfs, &c. fince erected there. 



King Henry VIII, confidering how much the river Thames was ex- 

 pofed to infults from foreign enemies, now ereded a platform of can- 

 non at Gravefend, and another oppofite to it on the Efl'cx fliore, where 

 Tilbury fort was aflerwards built. 



The king, to repair the lofs of his fine fliip, named the Regent, cauf- 

 ed another to be built (fays Hall's chronicle), fuch an one as had never 

 before been feen in England, and named it the Henry Grace de Dieu ! 



1514. — Guicciardin, in his defcription of the Netherlands, acquaints 

 us, that the city of Antvv^erp being, by its vail commerce, greatly en- 

 larged v.'ith new buildings, was now furrounded alfo with a new and 



* lu l!ie Eiijrlifii llu'j) 700 men, and in the for, that the Frencli (liip was Hill larger than the 

 Ficncb one 900, periflicd. It is probable, there- Regent. \^St,;-iv's annales, p.^zi, ed. iCioo.']^ M, 



