[1] But shortlie after Christmas came downe an ar|mie of fourtéene thousand, vnder the conduction of monsieur de Biez,Monsieur de Biez cõmeth before Bul|longne with an armie. the which the six and twentith of Ianuarie incamped on the west side of Bullongne beyond the hauen, where they laie ten daies: but on the sixt of Februarie, the earle of Hertford, the lord admerall, as then lord lieutenant of the towne of Bullongne, the lord Greie of Wilton, sir Thomas Poinings & others, hauing assembled out of the ga|risons on that side the seas, to the number of foure thousand footmen, & seuen hundred horsmen, whereof an hundred or foure score were Albanoises, issued foorth of Bullongne about foure of the clocke in the morning, and comming to the place where the king had incamped during the time of the siege, they staid there, and put themselues in order of battell: and a|bout six of the clocke, it being then a low water, cap|teine Edward Breie, with three hundred shot, was appointed to passe ouer, and to giue the enimies an alarum in their campe.