[1] But here I cannot but lament the negligence vsed in that season: for there is not one English writer to be found extant, that hath written anie thing effectuallie of the exploits atchiued in that iornie;Negligence of English|men for not putting their valiant doo|ings in wri|ting. so as we are driuen to borrow of the aduersa|ries that haue written thereof, wanting other helps of our owne nation to furnish our booke héerin accor|ding to our wished purpose. But neuerthelesse, to giue occasion to those that yet liue, and can best doo it, to set forth hereafter a more perfect discourse ther|of, I haue thought it not amisse to recite in part what I haue read and learned of such things as then were accounted worthie of relation, and now like to be buried in the dimme booke of obliuion, vnlesse some fauourer of notable euents chancing in the as|siegement of those two townes, Bullongne and Muttrell, will put to his helping hand to report the same to posteritie.