Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ƙananan tafiya a fadin Dover Strait ya ba da damar zama mai kyau da kuma samarwa ta teku. Duk da haka, rashin kare kariya na cikin gida ya bukaci gina da kuma kula da sansanin soja, a wasu kudade. Duk da haka, mahimmin mahimmanci a cikin kwanciyar hankali na gwamnatin Ingilishi a can tsawon ƙarni shine kishiyar Faransa da Burgundy, duka biyun suna sha'awar matsayin dabarun birni; kowannensu ya bar shi ga Ingilishi maimakon ya ba da shi ga juna. Daga ƙarshe, dabarun siyasa sun canza a rarraba yankin Burgundian a cikin ƙasashen ƙasashe tsakanin Faransa da Spain kuma, lokacin da Henry VIII ya sha wahala a cikin Sieges na Boulogne (1544<unk>1546)
, hanyar zuwa Calais ta buɗe zuwa kudu. Sannan a cikin 1550 Crown, a cikin rikicin maye gurbin sarauta, ya janye daga Boulogne.