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VIII. An Account of two ancient Drawings preserved in the British Museum: One, representing the Attack of the French upon the Town of Brighthelmstone in 1545: the Other, the Battle of St. Etienne, otherwise called the Battle of Arques, fought near Dieppe, in 1589. In a Letter from Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary, addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T., President

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Henry Ellis Esq.
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I have the pleasure to exhibit to the Society of Antiquaries Copies of two ancient Drawings in the British Museum. One is a Tracing, which has been obligingly made for me by Mr. J. T. Smith, from a representation of the Town of Brighthelmstone, taken in the month of July 1545, when that place was attacked by the French. The other is a Bird's-eye View of the country in the neighbourhood of Dieppe in Normandy, evidently drawn upon the spot, and exhibiting the positions of the armies of the King of Navarre and the Duke de Maienne at the battle of St. Etienne, September 21st, 1589.

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Archaeologia , Volume 24 , 1832 , pp. 292 - 298
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1832

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page 292 note a See the Plates L, LI. Plate L. has been reduced to an eighth, Plate LI. to half the size, of the original.

page 293 note b King Henry the Vlllth was at Portsmouth at this time.

page 293 note c Grafton, in his Chronicle, alluding to the same naval expedition of the French, says, “they disankered,” which in all probability is the meaning of Holinshed's “disanctioned.”.

page 293 note d Holinshed, p. 969.

page 297 note e Matthieu Hist. des Derniers Troubles de France, 80, 1603. Daniel, Hist. de Fr. ed. Par. 1756, torn. xi. p. 539. Cayet, Chronologie Novenaire, torn. i. p. 263. Le Grain, Decade eonten. La Vie et Gestes de Henry le Grand, 40. Rouen, 1633, liv. v. p. 386. Les Memoires de M. le Due de Nevers, fol. Par. 1665, torn. ii. p. 597.