[1] [2] [3] The duke of Norffolke and the lord priuie seale caused amount to be raised,A mount raised. and aloft thereon were certeine peeces of artillerie planted to shoot into the towne. Moreouer they compassed the walles so on ech hand with their seuerall camps and trenches, that hardlie might anie escape either in or out vnespied. Sir Francis Brian was appointed with certeine bands,Sir Francis Brian. conteining about the number of a thousand men, to lodge in a campe fortified by himselfe, ouer against one part of the towne, to stop certeine passa|ges on that side, that no succors should enter by the same to the reléefe of them within. There were skir|mishes dailie betwixt them that sallied forth of the gates, and the Englishmen that watched and war|ded in the trenches, and other places, insomuch that diuerse lost their liues, and some were irrecouerablie wounded, as Anglorum praelia witnesseth, saieng:

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