THE CAPTURE OF THE BARQUE AGER (1545).

+Source.+--Hall's _Henry VIII_.

In this time, there was by the Frenchmen a voyage made towards the

Isle of Brazil, with a ship called the Barque Ager, which they had

taken from the Englishmen before. And in their way they fortuned to

meet suddenly with a little Craer, of whom was Master one Golding,

which Golding was a fierce and an hardy man. The barque perceiving

this small Craer to be an Englishman, shot at him and boughed him,

wherefore the Craer drew straight to the great ship, and six or seven

of the men leapt into the Barque: the Frenchmen looking over the board

at the sinking of the Craer, nothing mistrusting anything, that might

be done by the Englishmen. And so it fortuned that those Englishmen

which climbed into the ship, found in the end thereof a great number

of lime pots, which they with water quenched, or rather as the nature

thereof is, set them a fire, and threw them at the Frenchmen that were

aboard, and so blinded them, that those few Englishmen that entered

the ship, vanquished all that were therein, and drove them under

hatches, and brought the barque clearly away again into England.

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