[1] [2] [3] [page 810] On the next daie in the morning, monie was sent to paie the souldiers their wages for their conducti|on againe into England, with diuerse gi [...]ts giuen to the lord Darcie, and other gentlemen; yet notwith|standing, he was highlie displeased: howbeit, like a wiseman he dissembled the matter.A shrewd traie begun vpon a small occasion. The same daie, being the fourtéenth daie of Iune, and fridaie, there chanced a fraie to be begun in the towne of Calis, betwixt the Englishmen, and them of the towne; by reason that an Englishman would haue had for his monie a loafe of bread from a maid that had beene at the bakers to buie bread, not to sell, but to spend in hir mistresse house. Edw. Hall. Howbeit the Englishman fol|lowed hir, as making proffer not to be denied, in so much that the maid perceiuing what he went about, cried out; A force, a force. Then was the common bell roong, and all the towne went to harnesse, and those few Englishmen that were a land, went to their bowes. The Spaniards cast darts, and the Englishmen shot. But the capteins of England, and the lords of the councell for their part, tooke such paine, that the fraie was ceassed, and but one Eng|lishman slaine, though diuerse were hurt: and of the Spaniards diuerse were slaine. Thus of a sparkle was kindled a flame to the spoiling of manie; which is no rare thing to see, according to the scriptum est:

Concitat ingentes flammas scintilla minuta.