Note 303 — Chapter XIV

Sir Thomas Cheyne writes to Cromwell: “I have received letters from Dover that the Frenchmen on the sea hath taken worth 2000l. of goods since the king being there, and a man-of-war of Dieppe and a pinnace took the king’s barge that carries the timber for his Highness’s work there, and robbed and spoiled the ship and men of money, victuals, clothes, ropes, and left them not so much as their compass. And another Frenchman took away a pink in Dover roads and carried her away. And on Tuesday last a great fleet of Flemings men-of-war met with my Lord Lisle’s ship, laden with wool to Flanders, and one of them took all the victuals and ordnance. Thus the king’s subjects be robbed and spoiled every day.”—MS. State Paper Office, second series, Vol. VI.