[1] On mondaie morning therefore by breake of the daie, they had laid two battries to the said bulworke,Batterie [...]aid to the Marie bulworke. thirtéene canons in the one, and nine in the other, with which they plied it so well, as that by noone they had not onelie dismounted their counter batterie within, but also cleane cut awaie the hoope of bricke off the whole forefront of their bulworks, whereof the filling being but of late digged earth, did crimble awaie. Which the enimie finding about two of the clocke in the same afternoone, sent fortie or fiftie for|lorne boies with swords and targets to view and assaie the breach. The ditch at that place before the batterie was not foure and twentie foot broad, now assuredlie not a dozzen, nor in deapth aboue a mans knées, wherefore with small adoo they came to the breach, and with as little paine came vp the same, the clime was so easie; from whence hauing dischar|ged certeine pistols vpon the Englishmen, and re|ceiued a few pushes of the pike, they retired. And making report of the easinesse of the breach, strait a band or two of Gascoigns (as it was thought) threw themselues into the ditch, and vp they came. Then a little more earnestly the Englishmen leaned to their tackling, their flankers walked, their pikes, their culuers, their pots of wild fire were lent them, the harquebush saluted them, so as tollie maister Gas|coigne was set downe with more hast than he came vp with good spéed: and so ended mondaies worke,The Gas|coignes put backe with more hast than they came vp with good spéed. sauing that vpon the retire from the assalt, they gaue seuen or eight such terrible tires of batterie, as tooke cleane away from them within the top of their vau|mure and maunds, leauing them all open to the ca|nons mouth. Wherby surelie but for night that came on, the Englishmen had beene forced to haue aban|doned the place.