[1] [2] [3] After this the king remooued toward Terrouan, and as he was setting forward, the lord Walon of Flanders came to him with his horssemen, which were alreadie in the kings wages. As the armie pas|sed, by negligence the same daie in a lane was o|uerthrowne one of the kings bombards of iron,The bombard called the red gun ouer|throwne. cal|led the red gun, and there left. The king lodged that night two miles from saint Omers on the north side of the towne. On the thursdaie, being the eight and twentith of Iulie, the maister carpenter with an hun|dred carpenters and labourers, without knowledge of the marshall, went to weie vp the great gun that was in the pond (as ye haue heard) and by force of engins drew it vp, and carted it readie to bring a|waie:The great gun gotten by the French, by the foolish hardinesse of the maister carpenter. but suddenlie there came an eight hundred Frenchmen with speares, crossebowes, and hand|guns, which set on the labourers so fiercelie, that not|withstanding their manfull defense, the most part of them were slaine and the residue taken, and both they and the péece of ordinance conueied to Bullongne.