[1] [2] In the meane time had the French king not onelie made himselfe strong by land, but also by sea, Fabian. Thom. Walsi. hauing sent foorth a strong nauie of ships and gallies towards the coasts of England, which arriuing at Southampton the mondaie after Michaelmas day,Southamptõ burnt. tooke and spoiled the towne, and the morrow after set fire vpon it in fiue places, so that a great part of it was burnt. Also thirteene sailes of the French fléet met with fiue English ships, and after a sore fight which continued nine houres, tooke two of those fiue being tall and goodlie ships, the one called the Ed|ward, and the other the Christopher; the other thrée be|ing smaller vessels,Two English ships taken. as two of them barks and the other a caruell escaped by their swiftnesse of sailing. There was slaine in that fight vpon both parts about the number of six hundred men.