[1] [2] During all this season, there were dailie attempts made and practised by the Englishmen in the lowe countries, namelie the English horssemen; & the ad|uenturers rested not, but dailie made inuasions vp|on the French confines. But the aduenturers about the beginning of winter made an enterprise to fetch some bootie from a village lieng towards Mutrell. They were not fullie two hundred men, and of those there were fiue and twentie horssemen. The French|men by chance the same time were abroad vnder the conduct of the earle of Dammartine, which was going to S. Omers with fiftéene hundred horsse|men, and eight hundred footmen, and perceiuing where the aduenturers were comming, made to|wards them, and after long & cruell fight ouercame them, and slue most part of them, for that in defen|ding themselues most stoutlie, they had slaine and wounded a great number of the Frenchmen yer they could be ouercome, kéeping themselues close to|gither, and might not be broken so long as they had anie arrowes to shoot.The end of the Kréekers. This was the end of the ad|uenturers otherwise called Kréekers, being as har|die men as euer serued prince.