[1] The houre came, himselfe with the warned com|panie issued out, passed ouer the water, and without anie alarum of the enimie,Chattilons garden ouer|throwen and rased downe. did ouerthrow in thrée or foure houres, what in two or three moneths had bin raised, and so in great quietnesse returned into the towne. Presentlie he dispatched sir Thomas Pal|mer backe againe to the king with the newes, whose returne was so sudden, as the king himselfe being in the chamber of presence, & séeing him, said alowd: What? Will he doo it or no? Sir Thomas giuing no other answer, but presenting his letters, and saieng, that thereby his maiestie should know. The king againe in earnest mood, Naie tell vs I saie, whether he will doo it or not? Then sir Thomas told him that it was doone, and the whole fortification cleane rased. Whereat the king taking great ioy, presentlie called to certeine of the lords of the councell that were by, and said: How saie you my lords, Chatillons garden the new fort is laid as flat as this floore. One streight amongst them gaue iudgement, that he that had doone it,The lord Greies ser|uice verie ho|norablie ac|cepted of the king. was worthie to lose his head. The king streight replied, he had rather lose a dozen such heads as his was that so iudged, than one such seruants as had doone it: and herewith he commanded, that the lord Greies pardon should presentlie be made, the which with a letter of great thanks, and promise of reward, was returned by the said sir Thomas Palmer to the said lord Greie; but the reward fai|led, the king not continuing long after in life: the like hap whereof had oftentimes happened vnto di|uerse of his worthie ancestors vpon their due deserts to haue béene considered of, and therefore the case the lesse strange.