The _Great Michael_ did not long remain a Scots ship. The fleet of Scotland went to France in 1513, and in the following year she was bought by Louis XII for 40,000 francs, to replace the _Cordelière_, which, as you will remember, was blown up with the _Regent_. This brings us back to the _Henri Grace à Dieu_, which was built to replace the latter ship. But before we turn our attention to her we cannot but note the difference between the alleged cost of the _Great Michael_ and that for which she was sold. The bargain does not seem worthy of the Scots reputation for "canniness". But we must bear in mind that a "pound Scots" was not at all the same thing as an English pound at that date. Ever since 1355 its value had been falling, till by 1603 it was only worth twenty pence instead of twenty shillings. It was, in fact, at the time of the sale, the kind of "silver pound" that the "chieftain to the Highlands bound" paid or promised the boatman if he would row Lord Ullin's daughter and himself "o'er the ferry". But even if we put it at about a tenth of a pound sterling in 1513, the bargain seems a poor one. Probably it was more of a political deal than anything else, comparable to the German sale of the _Goeben_ to Turkey. The _Henri Grace à Dieu_--I think we may as well call her the _Henri_ for short, and save time and paper--is a ship about which we have the most extended information in some respects--those dealing with her decoration and equipment, for instance; but we are left entirely in the dark as to her size and measurements. The only dimensions I have been able to find are those indicated on a plan which, on very insufficient grounds, is claimed to be a copy of the official one on which she was built, and which is stated to be--or at any rate to have been within the last century--at Plymouth dockyard. So far this original has not been traced, and I may remark that anyone who knows anything about the Navy would not dream of referring to the dockyard in the western port except as "Devonport Dockyard". However, I give the dimensions for what they may be worth--not much, I think: Length, 145 feet; beam, 35 feet 9 inches; tonnage, 839. Now if this, by any chance, is anything like correct she must have been a very much smaller ship than the _Great Michael_, which is not very likely, since Henry VIII would naturally have wanted "to go one better". Moreover, she is generally credited as having been of at least a thousand tons displacement, and carried a battery little, if any, inferior in weight and numbers to that of the _Michael_.