MARITIME HISTORY 



p r ndal experts to be 



'""*' d interdicts 



this tune Fowey ranked as a recognized port anTLclamatio? f 



on the conveyance of passengers and export of gold andTlv' ' s 



routme, just as at Bristol, Ipswich, and other of the Seat nor ' "^ PUbl ' Sh ' d there as a matter ' 

 Polruan, Truro, Padstow, Penryn, and Mou eho e afe nam 7 ' S [' 2 mes Jalmouth, Lostwithicl, 

 was attended by the complete los's of Engl s tprema" n Se 7 T he al f the war 

 without result ; the Commons laid the causes to 3 f,T ,7 ! Channel. Levy followed levy 



the king,' and in June, ,373, after ^ a? of he eaTl 7 P^K t d ~J ^PP^ bdb 

 was reduced to issuing commissions of array for the man" r Pembr oke off Rochelle, the crown 



sea. The ordinary rate of hire was 3,. 4 7a ton L three I'T" 68 T^ f ^"g them 

 were left unpaid, in contrast to the liberality Swarf ? h t nOW b th that and wa g<* 

 afford to make extra and unusual payments^to hd p t Je eaJn"" ^ ^ earlier ' When he co " ld 

 was marked by another maritime disaster in the s fane nfT P ' f the fleetS " The X ear '375 

 merchantmen, ranging from 300 tons downwards ^BoLneufT^ F**?" 1 f ***** 

 loss of the Trinity of Fowey, of 50 tons, nearly Jh" smallest of th ' "T" CSCaped with the 



June, 1377, and in July the French were raiding the L? C nV y ' u EdWai " d HI died in 



stopped short of Cornwall. A writ ordered two ba t^l'T^T ^ ^ bm aS USUal 

 in the ports of Devon and Cornwall,* but the EnJsh fll g ' u men tO be '^pressed 



d-re necessity caused Parliament in November To p se tha T " ^^ non ^^ and the 

 balmgers by the following March. In I37 8 came he turn of r 7 " ' ^^ ^^ pr V1 ' de 

 Spamsh cruisers ranged along the coast, burning Fowey and ol?rL > ^ L" the SUmmer the 

 Parliament complaining that the sailors who shoulTh^ve protec e d th'e^h ' T^ Pedti ned 

 the kmg's fleets their shipping and dwellings had in consequence he.nK " g been preSSed for 



ransom, and that the Spaniards had threatened to come Sand Ike .er' "^ PCrS nS PUt tO 

 summer." M.sfortune followed on misfortune, and in ,T 8 o aH that c ^^ POSSeSS ' n the next 

 landowners to remain on their estates near the'sea to organize defence 'In rt "' ^ tO '^ 

 a fleet from the western ports executed one successful strokeTn r? c f me yeaf ' h wever > 



defeating it, and recapturing the prizes taken TV the S^' V T 8 * *J* m ^ fleet into Kinsale 

 repeated complaints of Parliaments abou he ruin of & h 'h' N tWIt u hstandin g the Bitter and 

 t was "^^oa^geoenU^pSlTlaSRltte^SZ 116 ^V" 6 indications that 

 attent-on to Cornwall, we find that in one LSSClSidt ^ , T S ^\. Confi " in g our 

 120 tons, two of ioo, and one of 80 ton * A%;1 I, K , ' f Which one was of 

 1385 to obtain possession of his k ngdom of Ca^V ' duke f Lancaster sailed '" 



were of 10O tons each, and Fowey waf bT no mean t'hfm^ T 'T ^ f Which three 

 represented. ' most flourishing of the western ports 



i, jaaia* L^^^^^S^ r dme -*- ^ 



of war came from either side during the S ^ol *Hen rv IV h T^^ ^ C ntlnued ' No declaration 

 from actual belligerency. In consequence S 'th i.^7oflhi n t ^'T ? ** diftred n thl ' n g 

 themland towns were ordered, on^x JanuaryMoo-^ o^ll L^ *?* ^ ""^ f 



combination, at their own cost, by the following AnrT pLlS ^ T CqU ' P sh ' ps > ""^ or in 

 for one balinger, Looe and Fal'mo^th ^^d K^t?^^^ f* Calkd Up " 

 Parhament was complaining of foreign pirates the FrTY E g Dunn S these y ears > wh '"'e 



incessantly ravaging the ^^iffi^^S5?S" ^ that E "S lish -amen were 

 men of flagrant piracy.'" J n the twenty e-Vht T. nd Cast.hans accused Cornish and Devon 



could only namefou/of their rfWSftKnffiJ?T!L J 3 ! 3 - and ^ ^ ^ Wners 

 proved unprofitable. It was perhaps the lead in o /!' t u u """ transaction s had not as yet 

 these spoliations that led to aS onslStTo h 7 '^ men f the Western Aunties in 

 forty ships and three galleys beCng to Si e sCld h^ " - 14 , 05 ' v II had been Bended that 

 event only the three Spanish and ^F^,^^^^ 



I |*>"" ler > F <*<*'ra (ed. 1816), iii, 880. 



..iii, 2 , Pa , 8 April> 



riii, 172. Parliament met on 20 anuarv and 



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