Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The lord Mountioie perceiuing this, deuised with himselfe how to rouse the enimies out of that lurking place, and withall came to the duke of Nor|folke, and desired licence to put the deuise (which he had alreadie forecast in his mind) in practise. But the duke being not willing that he should put him|selfe in such danger, was loth to grant thereto, but rather persuaded with him not to attempt it: for (said he) my lord, yée may doo the king better seruice than so to hazard your life, and cast your selfe awaie, EEBO page image 966 as it is verie like you should, in aduenturing vpon such a desperat peece of seruice, and therfore I would not wish you to meddle therewith, for we shall o|therwise prouide for the matter well inough. But the lord Mountioie still persisted in his sute verie earnestlie, declaring that he doubted not (by Gods helpe) but to atchiue his purpose to his good conten|tation without anie great danger, if that were exe|cuted which he tooke to be necessarie for the accom|plishment of his deuise: and that was to haue cer|teine peeces of the great ordinance shot off that waie forth,A politike feat atchiued by the lord Mountioie. at what time the wind stood méet to car|rie the smoke full vpon the place where the French|men laie. At length vpon his earnest sute, the duke gaue him licence to trie what he could doo, comman|ding the great ordinance to be laid and charged rea|die to shoot off as he should appoint it. Herewith the lord Mountioie taking with him fouretéene of his owne soldiors (of the which number one of them for|sooke to go through with him when it came to the point) immediatlie vpon the shooting off of the artil|lerie, & that all the ground about was couered ouer with smoke, he came to the place where those French|men laie vnder couert of their trench, and so displa|ced them, that they had no liking eftsoones to lodge so neere vnto such vnfriendlie neighbors.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Manie other valiant and politike feats (no doubt) were atchiued during this siege, & happilie as wor|thie the rehearsall as this. But sith it was the inuen|tion of so noble a yoong gentleman,The lord Mountioie a noble yoong gentleman. I haue estéemed it not impertinent to speake thereof, and withall to lament the losse of the inuentor, who being taken a|waie shortlie after in his returne homewards, by vntimelie death, was like (if he had liued to grea|ter yéers of experience) to haue prooued comparable in valor to anie of his noble progenitors. But now to speake of other incidents that chanced whilest this siege remained before Muttrell, you must vnder|stand that the most part of the vittels that was spent in the campe was brought to them either from the kings campe at Bullogne, or else from S. Omers, to conueie the same so far off, it was néedfull to haue the carriage garded with good troops and bands both of horssemen and footmen: for the French fortresses were stronglie furnished with great numbers of men of war, which vpon occasions were readie to take aduantages offered.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And as it fortuned at one time among other, there was a conuoie of certeine wagons loden with vitels appointed to come from saint Omers, the same be|ing garded with diuerse bands of Englishmen and Burgonions, sent thither for that purpose, the which marching forward from saint Omers, kept not so good order as had béene requisit: whereof certeine companies of French horssemen that were abroad being aware, set vpon the Burgonions that were attendant vpon the foremost carriages, and finding them in some disorder, easilie discomfited them, follo|wed, and slue them in the chase, till they came to the hindermost carriages, where six hundred English men that attended on the same, impaled themselues with their wagons, so as the Frenchmen could take no aduantage: but with shot of the English archers were so curried and galled that they were driuen to retire,The English archers gall the French horssemen. and that in such hast, as they left diuerse of their companie captiues in the Englishmens hands beside those that were faire laid to take their last sléepe there on the ground. Neuerthelesse, of the Burgonions there were slaine foure hundred, and much good vittels lost, the bottoms of the hogsheads and other vessels being beaten out, and manie a good Flemish mare killed or taken. For the Frenchmen found small resistance (as before ye haue heard) till they approched to the Englishmen, by whose accusto|med manhood, some part of the vittels of that con|uoie was saued, to the releefe of the campe, which not|withstanding by losse of the residue suffered great want for the time.