Lords Gray and Wentworth were taken prisoners and were held to ransom.
Thus fell Calais after two hundred and ten years occupation by the English, and thus England lost the last rood of its once vast Continental possessions.
Few of the garrison survived the siege, the tremendous cannonade slew most of them, and when the town and citadel were stormed by the French every foot of ground was fiercely contested until the streets of the town and the ramparts of the Castle were choked with the dead and dying. It is stated that only fifty prisoners were made.
For a day and a night Calais was the prey of the ruthless soldiery, neither age nor sex was spared.
The town possessed little wealth; twenty-four hours sufficed for the seizure of all that it had to yield.
On January 10 the Dukes of Guise and De Nevers entered the town in all the panoply of war, and thenceforth all disorder ceased and the French began to repair the shattered walls with desperate haste.
Five days later King Henry the Second visited his latest conquest, and the French army was delirious with joy and enthusiasm.
The flag of France floated majestically from the grey towers of the Castle, never to be replaced by the flag of St. George.
Scene II
On November 17, 1558, Queen Mary died. Philip came not to England; by the hand of the Count de Feria he sent a message and a ring to his dying wife.