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And because they went bare- foot, we called them the Em- 

 peror's Apostles. 



After the camp was wholly dispersed, I distributed my 

 patients into the hands of the surgeons of the town, to 

 finish dressing them : then I took leave of M. de Guise, and 

 returned to the King, who received me with great favour, 

 and asked me how I had been able to make my way into 

 Metz. I told him fully all that I had done. He gave me 

 two hundred crowns, and an hundred which I had when 

 I set out: and said he would never leave me poor. Then I 

 thanked him very humbly for the good and the honour 

 be was pleased to do me. 



THE JOURNEY TO HESDIN. 1553 



THE Emperor Charles laid siege to the town of The- 

 rouenne; arxj M. le Due de Savoie was General of his 

 whole army. It was taken by assault: and there was a 

 great number of our men killed and taken prisoners. 



The King, wishing to prevent the enemy from besieg- 

 ing the town and castle of Hesdin also, sent thither MM. 

 le Due de Bouillon, le Due Horace, le Marquis de Villars, 

 and a number of captains, and about eighteen hundred 

 soldiers: and during the siege of Therouenne, these Seign- 

 eurs fortified the castle of Hesdin, so that it seemed to 

 be impregnable. The King sent me to the Seigneurs, 

 to help them with my art, if they should come to have 

 need of it 



Soon after the capture of Therouenne, we were besieged 

 in Hesdin. There was a clear stream of running water 

 within shot of our cannon, and about it were fourscore 

 or an hundred of the enemy's rabble, drawing water. I 

 was on a rampart watching the enemy pitch their camp; 

 and, seeing the crowd of idlers round the stream, I asked 

 M. du Pont, commissary of the artillery, to send one 

 cannon-shot among this canaille: he gave me a flat refusal, 

 saying that all this sort of people was not worth the powder 

 would be wasted on them. Again I begged him to level 

 the cannon, telling him, "The more dead, the fewer en- 

 emies;* which be did for my take: and the shot killed 



