But though little was demanded of the navy at that period, it was allowed to become too weak to do even that little. When Calais was attacked by the Duke of Guise in the winter of 1559, Mary's navy was so unprepared that it could not be got ready in time to give the least assistance to the garrison. A few of our ships, which had been fitted out too late to be of any service at Calais, did make their appearance on the flank of the French troops, which were defeated on the sands at Gravelines, by the Count of Egmont, and that was about the sum of the service they rendered during Mary's reign. There was indeed something stirring among the seamen of the west of England, which was to have great consequences in the next reign, but it will come to be dealt with more appropriately in our account of the navy of Queen Elizabeth. CHAPTER II REIGN OF ELIZABETH TO THE DEFEAT OF THE ARMADA AUTHORITIES.--Charnock continues to be of value for this reign, and indeed for the history of the navy till the end of the eighteenth century. Derrick's _Rise and progress of the Royal Navy_ gives useful official lists. Mr. Whateley gives the substance of the rules established for the Navy Office by Elizabeth in 1560, at pp. 131-134 of his _Samuel Pepys, and the World he lived in_. The original is in the S. P. Dom. Elizabeth, vol. xv. The Calendars of State Papers of the reign contain much information as to the navy. More is in the great collection of Hakluyt. The Navy Record Society has published the papers referring to the Armada, while the Spanish side of the story is told in _La Armada Invencible_ of Don Cesareo Duro--so admirably extracted and combined by Mr. Froude in his _Spanish Story of the Armada_. Drake's first notable cruise to the West Indies is told in the _Drake Redivivus_.