[1] [2] But before I declare to you the aduenture of these two great nauies by sea, it shall not be imper|tinent to touch some accidents in the meane time by [page 1150] land.Monsieur de Thermes [...]apteine of Calis work| [...] vpon the [...]uan [...]age to [...] the French [...] mo [...]e ho| [...]orable ser| [...]ce. While king Philip being absent from the low countrie, was (as you haue heard) occupied with his wa [...]res in France, monsieur de Thermes the new capteine of Calis, being a man verie expert in the wars (whose propertie is neuer to neglect anie time of aduantage) cast in his mind, how (during king Ph [...]lips absence) to doo some singular seruice to the French king his maister. And espieng well the neg|ligence of the Flemings his neighbors, how little they vnderstood the great weakening of their coun|trie by the losse of Calis, and that there was no new prouision made for the defense thereof, more than was before, whilest Calis was English, by the losse wherof, their frontiers were now become open for the French at all times to enter. He therefore taking out of Calis so manie of his soldiors as might be spared from thense, adioining to them all the forces of the French garrisons in Arthois, Bul|longnois, and Picardie, whereof togither with the soldiors of Calis, being to the number of seuen hun|dred footmen, and thrée hundred light horssemen Sco|tish, there were assembled fouretéene ensigns of the French footmen, eightéene vanlins of Almans, foure or fiue hundred men at armes of France, be|side the light horssemen Scots, amounting in the whole to the number at the least of nine thousand footmen, and fifteene hundred horssemen, entred in|to Flanders, with full determination to spoile and waste all king Philips countrie along the sea coast,Monsieur de Thermes de| [...]mination a [...]le king Philips [...]ntrie. and namelie a proper hauen towne called Dun|kirke, and with like purpose to haue surprised the towne of Graueling; if occasion would so serue.