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spirit breathed by which has ever since, and with ever-increasing power, influenced the English race.

Entitled 'De Politia Conservitia Maris,' and as such printed in Hakluyt,^[1] it is more generally known as 'The Libel of English Policie.' It is in English ten-syllabled rhymed couplets. Although

FROM THE MS. LIFE OF RICHARD BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF
WARWICK, BY JOHN ROUS, WHO DIED 1491.
(Cotton MSS., Julius, E. iv. 6.)

its authorship is a matter of doubt,^[2] it is known, from statements in the work itself, that it was revised and approved of by Walter, first Baron Hungerford, during the lifetime of the Emperor Sigismund; and, as Hungerford, who had served as admiral of a squadron in 1416, was not summoned as a baron until 1426, and

1. Voyages, i. 187.
2. It has been attributed, with some show of reason to Bishop Adam de Moleyns, who was murdered at Portmouth in 1450.