The enemy's cannons did beat us from the breach on the inside.
The Castle was subject to every shot; both from the Keep, the Catte, and the Mary Bulwark.
The French possessed all the special places of our strength and comfort.
The best and chiefest of our soldiers were slain, or lay maimed in most miserable state.
And we had lost 800 men in these assaults and services; which did their duty so well, that the enemy confessed that they had lost 4,000, before we could be brought to any parley or composition.
But some of our Officers [? Is our Author here alluding to Captain Lord Dudley at Hammes, p. [183]], by craft and cunning, escaped homewards out of the Frenchmen's hands; came to Court, and made up their Bands [companies] again; to the great reproach of those that meant no such matters. So, by that subtilty and shift, they that escaped got a pay or some reward of the Prince: and those that abode out the brunt and hazard of the bloody broil, were left in prison.
And the world thought, by seeing so many come home, we had lost but a few at the siege of Guisnes; which is otherwise to be proved and affirmed for a truth; when true trial [inquiry] shall be made.
Calais was lost before, I cannot declare how. But well I wot, Sir Anthony Ager, a stout gentleman, and a valiant Knight, there lost his life: and one Captain Saule was terribly burnt with powder, in making a train to destroy the enemy [p. [199]].