enemies and outlaws, as friends and allies, free access into his
dominions unmolested till the trial were ended.

In the course of his combats for his mistress, his valour and skill
in arms so engaged the Duke to his interest, that he offered him the
highest preferments if he would remain at his court. This proposal
he rejected, as he intended to proceed thro' all the chief cities in
Italy; but his design was frustrated by letters sent by King Henry
VIII. which commanded his speedy return into England.

In the year 1544, upon the expedition to Boulogne in France, he was
made field marshal of the English army, and after taking that town,
being then knight of the garter, he was in the beginning of September
1545 constituted the King's lieutenant, and captain-general of all his
army within the town and county of Boulogne[1]. During his command
there in 1546, hearing that a convoy of provisions of the enemy was
coming to the fort at Oultreaw, he resolved to intercept it; but
the Rhinegrave, with four thousand Lanskinets, together with a
considerable number of French under the de Bieg, making an obstinate
defence, the English were routed, Sir Edward Poynings with divers
other gentlemen killed, and the Earl himself obliged to fly, tho' it
appears, by a letter to the King dated January 8, 1548, that this
advantage cost the enemy a great number of men. But the King was
so highly displeased with this ill success, that from that time he
contracted a prejudice against the Earl, and soon after removed him
from his command, and appointed the Earl of Hertford to succeed him.
Upon which Sir William Page wrote to the Earl of Surry to advise him
to procure some eminent post under the Earl of Hertford, that he might
not be unprovided in the town and field. The Earl being desirous in
the mean time to regain his former favour with the King, skirmished