[1] The Englishmen after the taking and spoiling of Dunkirke, returned to Grauelin and Bruckburge, which places they fortified, and then leauing garri|sons in them, they went to Mardike, and tooke it, for it was not closed. In the meane time, the countrie|men of west Flanders rose in armour, and came to Dunkirke, meaning to resist the Englishmen: whereof when the bishop was certified, with all spéed he marched thither, and comming to the place where the Flemings, to the number of more than twelue thousand were ranged without the towne, he sent an herald vnto them to know the truth,The herald of armes sent to ye Flemings by the bishop of Norwich is slaine. of whether pope they held; but the rude people, not vnderstand|ing what apperteined to the law of armes, ran vpon the herald at his approching to them, and slue him before he could begin to tell his tale.