[1] The French nauie laie betwixt Sluise and Blanc|bergh, Polydor. Ia. Meir. so that when the king of England approched, either part descried other, & therewith prepared them to battell. The king of England staied, till the sunne which at the first was in his face, came somewhat westward, and so had it vpon his backe, that it should not hinder the sight of his people, and so therewith did set vpon his enimies with great manhood, who likewise verie stoutlie incountered him,The king of England set|teth vpon his enimies. by reason whereof insued a sore and deadlie fight betwixt them. The nauies on both sides were diuided into three bat|tels. On the English part, the earles of Glocester, Northampton and Huntington,Additions to Triuet. who was admerall of the fléet that belonged to the cinque ports, and the lord Robert Morley admerall of the northerne nauie had the guiding of the fore ward, bearing themselues right valiantlie, so that at length the Englishmen hauing the aduantage, not onlie of the sunne, but al|so of the wind and tide, so fortunatlie, that the French fléet was driuen into the streights of the hauen, in such wise that neither the souldiers nor mariners could helpe themselues, in somuch that both heauen, sea, and wind, seemed all to haue conspired against the Frenchmen. And herewith manie ships of Flan|ders ioining themselues with the English fleet,The victo [...] of the English [...]men at the battell of Sluise. in the end the Frenchmen were vanquished, slaine and ta|ken, their ships being also either taken, bowged, or broken.