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_]. +JOHN FOX+, the Martyrologist. _The death of Queen MARY._ [_The Ecclesiastical History_ ii. 2296, _Ed._ 1570]. Now then after these so great afflictions falling upon this realm from the first beginning of Queen MARY's reign, wherein so many men, women, and children were burned; many imprisoned, and in prisons starved, divers exiled, some spoiled of goods and possessions, a great number driven from house and home, so many weeping eyes, so many sobbing hearts, so many children made fatherless, so many fathers bereft of their wives and children, so many vexed in conscience, and divers against conscience constrained to recant, and, in conclusion, never a good man in all the realm but suffered something during all the time of this bloody persecution. After all this, I say, now we are come at length, the LORD be praised! to the 17th day of November, which day, as it brought to the persecuted members of CHRIST rest from their careful mourning, so it easeth me somewhat likewise of my laborious writing; by the death, I mean, of Queen MARY. Who, being long sick before, upon the said 17th day of November, 1558, about three or four a clock in the morning, yielded her life to nature, and her kingdom to Queen ELIZABETH, her sister.