With the English declaration of war, hostilities…

With the English declaration of war, hostilities now flare up across northern France.

Sir John Wallop, who from 1532 to 1541 had passed much of his time in Paris and elsewhere in France as the representative of the English king, had filled several other public positions, including that of lieutenant of Calais.

He had been suddenly arrested in January 1541 on a charge of treason; his offense, however, was not serious and in the same year, he had been made captain of Guînes.

Wallop crosses the Channel to Calais on Henry's orders with an army of five thousand men, to be used in the defense of the Low Countries.

The expedition has little impact, though the soldiers spend a long in the field.

Wallop, though ill during part of the operations, gains great glory, and Emperor Charles V commends his conduct to Henry VIII.