[1] [2] It was reported in France, that a mightie ar|mie was come ouer foorth of England with great ordinance: which brute caused the French king to send to the frontiers of Picardie the duke of Uan|dosme, and other capteins with all spéed to defend the same. The king of England hearing thereof, sent the earles of Surrie, and Southampton, and the lord Russell,The earles of Surrie and Southamton sent to Calis. high admerall into the marches of Calis, to set order there, and after them he likewise sent two hundred light horssemen of the borders of Scotland, whom the Frenchmen called Stradiots. The lords hauing set order in things, shortlie returned. A boie, oneRichard Mekins, not past fiftéene yeares of age, was burnt in Smithfield,Richard Me|kins burnt. Sée Iohn Fox in the Acts & Monuments. for speaking against the sacrament, and contrarie to the statute of the six ar|ticles. The bishop of London was thought in great fault, for procuring that terrible execution, seeing the yoong fellow was but an ignorant foole without learning, and gladlie recanted that wherewith he was charged.