[609] Here, again, the munificence of John Philpott is especially noticed. Walsingham, p. 248.
[610] In July 1380. Walsingham, p. 249.
[611] The records of Parliament, at this period, are each year full of these natural complaints, to which Richard and his ministers appear to have paid little attention. See, especially, Rot. Parl. iii. p. 102. s.a. 1382.
[612] Rymer, Fœd. v. pp. 195-97. Knyghton col. 2577. Stowe, p. 369. This is believed to have been the first naval victory gained by the king in person since the days of Alfred. Sir H. Nicolas suggests that the gold nobles struck by Edward III. in 1344, on which the king is represented standing in a large ship, were struck in allusion to, if not in commemoration of, this action. (Hist. Roy. Navy, ii. p. 223.) Selden quotes the lines:
“For foure things our noble sheweth to me,
King, shippe and sword, and power of the sea.”
Mare Clausum ii. c. 25.
The same writer also gives this line:
“Thus made he Nobles coyned of record,”
in honour, apparently, of the capture of Calais A.D. 1347.