There are more drawings than one in existence, supposed to represent this famous warship. One of them, shown in Fig. 41, is from a drawing in the Pepysian Library, in Magdalene College, Cambridge. Another, shown in Fig. 42, is from an engraving by Allen of a picture ascribed to Holbein. The two illustrations differ in many important respects and cannot both represent the same ship. There is very little doubt that Fig. 41 is the more correct representation of the two, because it is confirmed in all essential respects by Volpe's picture of the embarkation of Henry VIII. at Dover in 1520 on this very ship. Volpe's picture is now at Hampton Court Palace, and shows four other ships of the Royal Navy, which were all built in the same style as the Pepysian drawing of Fig. 41, with enormous forecastles and poops. The vessel represented in the picture ascribed to Holbein appears to belong to a later date than 1520, and is, in fact, transitional between the ships of this period and those of the reign of Elizabeth. One of the warships of the latter period is shown in Fig. 45. According to a manuscript, in the Pepysian Collection, the _Henry Grace a Dieu_ was armed with twenty-one guns and a multitude of smaller pieces. The numbers of the various guns and the weights of their shot are given in the following table:-- +---------------+---------+-----------+ | | | Weight of | | Name of gun. | Number. | shot. | +---------------+---------+-----------+ | | | lbs. | | Cannon | 4 | 60 | | Demi-cannon | 3 | 32 | | Culverin | 4 | 18 | | Demi-culverin | 2 | 8 | | Saker | 4 | 6 | | Cannon Perer | 2 | 26 | | Falcon | 2 | 2 | +---------------+---------+-----------+ The sizes of the guns of this time are pretty accurately known, because one of the ships of Henry VIII., called the _Mary Rose_, built in 1509, went down off Portsmouth in 1545, and several of her guns have been recovered, and are still in existence. The portholes were circular, and so small in diameter that no traverse could have been given to the guns. This practice continued to prevail till the time of the Commonwealth. There were five masts in this, as in all other first-rates henceforth down to the time of Charles I. One of the masts was inclined forward, like a modern bowsprit. Each mast was made in one piece, the introduction of separate topmasts having been a more modern improvement. [Illustration: FIG. 43--Genoese carrack. 1542.]