Note 612 — Chapter XIII
Reading edition
Rymer, Fœd. v. pp. 195-97. Knyghton col. 2577. Stowe, p. 369. This is believed to have been the first naval victory gained by the king in person since the days of Alfred. Sir H. Nicolas suggests that the gold nobles struck by Edward III. in 1344, on which the king is represented standing in a large ship, were struck in allusion to, if not in commemoration of, this action. (Hist. Roy. Navy, ii. p. 223.) Selden quotes the lines:
“For foure things our noble sheweth to me, King, shippe and sword, and power of the sea.” Mare Clausum ii. c. 25.
The same writer also gives this line:
“Thus made he Nobles coyned of record,”
in honour, apparently, of the capture of Calais A.D. 1347.