He was attended by the lords Montacute, Herbert, Ferrars, Morney, Sandys, Berkeley, Powis, and many other noblemen and gentlemen.[***] * Memoires du Bellai, liv.

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** Belcarius, lib.

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*** Herbert.
The English army, reenforced by some troops drawn from the garrison of Calais, amounted to about twelve thousand men; and having joined an equal number of Flemings under the count de Buren, they prepared for an invasion of France.

The siege of Boulogne was first proposed; but that enterprise appearing difficult, it was thought more advisable to leave this town behind them.

The frontier of Picardy was very ill provided with troops; and the only defence of that province was the activity of the French officers, who infested the allied army in their march, and threw garrisons, with great expedition, into every town which was threatened by them.