The Voyage of Boulogn, 1545.
A Little while after we went to Boulogne, where the English seeing our Army, left the Forts which they had, that is to say, Moulambert the little Paradise, Monplaisir, the fort of Shatillon, the Porter, the sort Dardelot. One day going through the Camp to dress my hurt people, the enemies who were in the Tower of Order, shot off a piece of ordnance, thinking to kil Horsemen which stayd to talk with one another. It happened that the bullet passed very near one of them, which threw him to the ground, and twas thought the said bullet had toucht him, which it did not at all, but only the winde of the said bullet in the midst of his coat, which went with such a force that all the outward part of the thigh became black and blue, and he had much ado to stand. I drest him, and made him divers Scarifications to evacuate the contused blood, which the winde of the said bullet had made; and the rebounds that it made on the ground, kild four soul∣diers which remained dead in the place. I was not far from this stroke, so that I felt somewhat the moved air, without doing me any more harm then a little fear which made me stoop my head very low, but the bullet was already passed far beyond me.
The Souldiers mockt me to be affraid of a bullet already gone. (My little Master) I think if you had been there that I had not been affraid alone, and that you would have had your share of it. What shall I say more? Monsieur the duke of Guise, Francis of Lorrain, was hurt before Bullogne with a stroke of a Lance, which above the right eye, declining towards the nose, entered and passed quite through on the other between the nucha and the ear, with so great violence that the head of the lance with a great part of the wood was broken and remained within, in such sort that it could not be drawn out but with great force, yea with Smiths pin∣cers. Notwithstanding all this violence which was not done without breaking of bones, nerves, and arteries, and other parts, my Said Lord, by the help of God, was cured: the Said Lord went alwaies with open face, which was the cause that the Lance went through on the other side.