[1] [2] Here is also to be noted, that when queene Marie and hir councell heard crediblie of the Frenchmens sudden approch to that towne,As good neuer as too late. she with all spéed possi|ble (but somewhat too late) raised a great power for the rescue thereof; the which comming to Douer, stai|ed thereabouts till the towne was woone, either for that their whole number was not come togither, or for that there were not ships readie sufficient to passe them ouer, although the wind and weather serued ve|rie well to haue transported them thither, till the sun|daie at night after the towne was deliuered: for then began a maruellous sore and rigorous tempest,A terrible tempest. con|tinuing the space of foure or fiue daies togither, that the like had not béene seene in the remembrance of man. Rich. Grafton. Wherefore some said that the same came to passe through necromancie, and that the diuell was raised vp and become French, the truth whereof is knowne (saith maister Grafton) to God. True it is that after the said tempest began, for the time it la|sted, no ship could well brooke the seas, by reason of the outragious storms. And such of the quéenes ships as did then aduenture the passage,The quéenes ships sore sha|ken with storme and tempest. were so shaken and torne with the violence of the weather, that they were forced to returne in great danger, & not with|out losse of all their tackle and furniture: so that if this tempestuous weather had not chanced, it was thought that the armie should haue passed to haue gi|uen some succors to Guisnes, and to haue attempted the recouerie of Calis.