Brewer's: Great Harry

(The). A man-of-war built by Henry VII., the first of any size constructed in England. It was burnt in 1553. (See Henry Grace De Dieu.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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