[1] [2] For the maister gunner Christopher Morreis hauing there certeine falcons,The maner of the winning of Morleis in Britaine by the earle of Surrie. with the shot of one of them, stroke the locke of the wicket in the gate, so that it flew open: and then the same Christopher and other gentlemen with their souldiers, in the smoke of the gunnes pressed to the gates, and finding the wicket open, entered, and so finallie was the towne of Morleis woone, and put to sacke. The souldiers gained much by the pillage, for the towne was excée|ding rich, and speciallie of linnen cloth. When they had rifled the towne throughlie, and taken their plea|sure of all things therein, the earle caused them by sound of trumpet to resort to their standards, and af|ter they had set fire in the towne, and burned a great part thereof, the earle retreated with his armie to|wards his ships, burning the villages by the waie, and all that night lay on land. On the morrow after they tooke their ships, and when they were bestowed on boord, the earle commanded sixtéene or seuenteene ships small and great, lieng there in the hauen, to be burnt.