One of the largest ships of this time was the French _Cordelière_ in Fig. 46. Although it is not quite safe to rely too much on the reported tonnage of these mediæval vessels, hers has been assessed at 700 while the _Regent_ and the _Sovereign_ have been estimated at 1000 each. Another famous contemporary French ship was the _Grand Louise_ of 790 tons. The latter was a four-master. She had pavesses around her like those on the _Cordelière_. Cannon were carried on her deck. Her mainsail was decorated with a shield device, whilst the main-mizzen and the bonaventure mizzen carried lateen-sails. In the illustration just mentioned the _Cordelière_ is in the foreground, the ship behind being the _Regent_. While the latter was attacking the French ship off Brest at the beginning of Henry VIII.’s reign both vessels caught fire and became a total loss. Our illustration, which is taken from a MS. in the Bibliothèque Nationale, shows this mournful incident depicted. Not entirely had the galley disappeared yet. In a warrant dated January 29, 1510,[68] we find mention of caracks, galleys, row-barges, hulks, barks (great barks and “lesse barks”), ships and crayers. The latter were victualling ships. Thus when the _Sovereign_ sailed from Portsmouth she had with her the _Trinity of Wight_ (80 tons), the _James of London_ (80 tons) and the _Katherine Pomegranate_ as her victuallers. We find in this warrant also mentioned “twyne, merling (marlin), ropes, cables, cabletts (these were used for the mainstay), boyes (buoys), lynes, tacks, lists, toppe-armers, stremers, standards, compasses, ronnyng glasses (sand-glasses for the log), lanterns, shevers of bras, poleys, shrowdes” and other “taclyng.” The same warrant directs the building of the _Mary Rose_ of 400 tons and the _Peter Pomegranate_ of 300 tons. The former foundered at Spithead in the year 1545.