The Naval Chronicle (Volume 6) - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1801. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... MR. EDITOR, IENCLOSE you the old ballad of Sir Andrew Barton, which will, I hope, afford some amusement to your nautical readers, as it is highly descriptive of the manners of our ancestors about the time that the British Navy was first regularly established. Sir Edward Howard, who commanded one of the English ships in this action, was afterwards created Lord High Admiral of England; he was killed in a most gallant but unsuccessful attack, made on some French gallics under their own batteries in the bay of Conquet. A maxim of this Admiral's is recorded by Herbert, which seems characteristic of our Naval Heroes of the present day. It was, " that a seaman can never do any good service, who is not resolute to a degree of madness." Sir Thomas Howard, who commanded the other ship, succeeded his brother in his high office, and the first service on which he was ordered was to revenge the death of his brother; this he amply performed, driving the enemy into their own ports, and. striking them with such tetror, that, according to the old author, not so much as a fishing-boat dared appear on the coast*. After rendering his country eminent service at sea, on his father the Duke of Norfolk resigning the office of Lord Treasurer, he was appointed to succeed him, and from that period was entirely employed on shore. On the demise of his father he inherited the estate and dukedom of Norfolk. In the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII. he had nearly fallen a sacrifice to the resentment of that capricious monarch, whose sudden death alone saved the Duke ( King Henry died the very night before that noble Lord was to have been executed), who received a pardon from his successor, Edward VI.; and after being restored to his title and estate, died in the first year of Quee...