a ship, however, surpassed by a French one, the Cordilier, which carried one thousand one hundred men. The Harry Grace à Dieu was destroyed by fire when lying at Woolwich on the 27th of August, 1563.
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HARRY GRACE A DIEU.—FROM PEPYSIAN LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE.
Number and strength of the fleet at the death of Henry VIII., 28 Jan., 1547. On the death of Henry VIII. an account was taken of everything appertaining to the navy of England, and in the 'Archæologia' will be found the names of all the royal "shippes, galleys, pynnasses, and row-barges, with their tonnage, number of soldiers, mariners, and gunners."[1] In this official inventory, taken by a commission specially appointed for the purpose, the Great Harry appears at the head of the list, and is there recorded as being of one
- ↑ Appendix, No. 4, 5.
