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on a pursuit after them,-namely, John Raullet and Pierron de Luppel, with about sixscore combatants, and killed and took a good many of them. They imagined they had gained the day, and that the Burgundians were totally defeated; but in this they wen mistaken, for the duke, with about five hundred combatants of the highest nobility and most able in arms, fought with determined resolution, insomuch that they overpowered the Dauphinois, and remained masters of the field of battle.

According to the report of each party, the duke behaved with the utmost coolness and courage; but he had some narrow escapes, for at the onset he was hit by two lances, one d which pierced through the front of his war-saddle and grazed the armour of his right side; he was also grappled with by a very strong man, who attempted to unhorse him, but his courser, being high-mettled and stout, bore him out of this danger. He therefor: fought manfully, and took with his own hands two men-at-arms, as he was chasing the enemy along the river-side. Those nearest his person in this conflict were the lord de Longueval and Guy de Rely, and some of his attendants, who, though few in number, s ported him ably. It was some time before his own men knew where he was, as they misse his banner; and when John Raullet and Pierron de Luppel returned from their pursuit the Burgundian runaways, expecting to find their companions victorious and on the field battle, they were confounded with disappointment on seeing the contrary, and instantly fel toward St. Valery, and with them the lord de Moüy; others made for D'Airaines.

The duke of Burgundy, on coming back to the field of battle, collected his men, avi caused the bodies of those to be carried off who had fallen in the engagement, particular that of the lord de Viefville. Although all the nobles and great lords who had remaine! with the duke of Burgundy behaved most gallantly, I must especially notice the conduct of John Villain, who had that day been made a knight. He was a nobleman from Flanders. very tall and of great bodily strength, and was mounted on a good horse, holding a battle-ar in both hands. Thus he pushed into the thickest part of the battle, and, throwing the brid on his horse's neck, gave such blows on all sides with his battle-axe that whoever w struck was instantly unhorsed and wounded past recovery. In this way he met Poton & Saintrailles, who, after the battle was over, declared the wonders he did, and that he got oni of his reach as fast as he could.

When the duke had collected his men, and had caused the dead to be inspected and stripped, he returned to Abbeville, where he was joyously received, with those of th Dauphinois who had been made prisoners,-namely, the lord de Conflans, Louis d'Offemont sir Gilles de Gamaches, his brother Louis, sir Louis de Thiembronne, Poton de Saintraille the marquis de Serre, his brother de Saint-Saulieu, sir Regnault de Fontaines, Sauvage & la Riviere, John de Proisy governor of Guise, sir Raoul de Gaucourt, sir John de Roga Bernard de St. Martin, John de Joigny, the lord de Mommor, John de Verselles, le bour: de la Hire, Yvon de Puys, John de Sommam, Hervé Dourdis, and others, to the amount one hundred and six-score.

There were left dead on the field, of both parties, from four to five hundred men; but was thought only from twenty to thirty were Burgundians, and chiefly belonging to t lord de Viefville and John lord of Mailly*. Those of note slain of the Dauphinois were, i Peter d'Argensy lord of Ivry, Charles de Saint-Saulieu, Galhaut d'Aarsy, Thibaut & Gerincourt, sir Corbeau de Rieux, sir Sarrasin de Beaufort, Robinet de Verseilles, Guillaum du Pont, the bastard de Moy, and many other gentlemen, to the above amount.

The prisoners made and carried off by the Dauphinois were, sir Colart de Commines, Guillain de Halluyn, the lord de Sailly en Hernaise, Lamon de Lannoy, and some others In this engagement, sir John de Luxembourg, from his too great eagerness at the onset, made prisoner by a man-at-arms called le Mouse, and carried away to some distance, b he was rescued by a party of his own and the duke's men. He was, however, very badly wounded on the face and across his nose. In like manner was the lord de Humbercou taken, wounded, and rescued.

*Moreri says that the lord de Mailly himself was killed in this engagement. He was succeeded by his brother, also named John, and called le jeune, also l'Estendart,

who was afterwards a very distinguished warrier en de part of Charles VII. The lord de Viefville is mentiŞCA to have been killed in the preceding page.

On the arrival of the duke of Burgundy at Abbeville, he went to the church of our Lady to offer up his prayers and thanksgivings for his great success, and thence to his lodgings at the hôtel of the Crown. His people, many of whom had been wounded in the battle, quartered themselves in the town as well as they could. The duke now first heard that great part of his force had deserted him and fled to Picquigny, which surprised and angered him greatly, and not without cause. He would never afterward admit any of those runaways Eo his presence, and dismissed all of them who had been of his household: very few men of ank, however, of the latter description, had fled.

When he had remained three days in Abbeville to refresh and recover his men, and had resolved in council not to lay siege again to St. Riquier, on account of the present state of his armny, and for other reasons, he departed, and, passing by St. Riquier, fixed his quarters t Auxi. Sir John de Luxembourg was carried thither in a litter on account of the severity of his wounds. On the morrow he advanced to Hesdin, where he made some stay; and, having ordered different garrisons to oppose that of St. Riquier, he disbanded the greater part of his army. By his moderation in their ransoms, he gained over all the captains of he Dauphinois who had been made prisoners, and sent them to his castle of Lille, where hey remained a considerable time. Thenceforward this engagement was called the rencounter at Mons in Vimeu, and was not deemed a battle, because the two parties met accidentally in he manner you have heard, and without any banner displayed.

Among the principal persons who had fled were, the lord de Cohen governor of Abbeville, vho was not yet recovered from the wound he had received, of which mention has been nade, and which prevented him from putting on his helmet: he had been advised, on eaving Abbeville, not to engage in combat; and he was held excused on account of his vound. The others were, the before-named John de Rosimbos, and the whole of those ttached to the duke's banner.

HAPTER CCXLVII.-THE

NAMES OF THE PRINCIPAL LORDS WHO HAD ACCOMPANIED AND REMAINED WITH THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY IN THE LATE RENCOUNTER. ALSO THE NAMES OF THE PRINCIPAL DAUPHINOIS.

HERE follow the names of the lords and captains who supported the duke of Burgundy in he late engagement. Sir John de Luxembourg, the lord d'Antoing, sir John de la Trimuille, ord de Jonvelle, the lords de Croy, de la Viefville, de Longueval, de Genlis, de Robais and is son, d'Auxi, de Saveuses, de Crevecoeur, de Noyelle, surnamed the White Knight, de Humbercourt, sir Pierre Kieret, sir Guy de Rely, John lord of Mailly, John de Fosseux, le Loyne de Renty, sir David de Brimeu, lord of Ligny, sir Andrew de Vallines, the lord de aint-Simon, the lord de Framensen, Regnault de Longueval, Aubillet de Folleville, the astard de Coussy, sir Louis de Saint-Saulieu, who was that day knighted, and on the morrow was drowned in the Somme at Abbeville, as he was giving water to a horse he had taken om the Dauphinois, John de Flavy, Andrew de Toulongeon, sir Philibert Andrenet, sir auvain de la Viefville, sir Florimont de Brimeu, sir Mauroy de Saint-Leger, sir Andrew 'Azincourt, the lord de Commines, his brother sir Colart de Commines, sir John d'Estenu, r John de Hornes, sir Roland du Querque, his son sir John du Querque, sir Guillain de [aluyn, sir John and sir Andrew Vilain, sir Daviod de Poix, the lord de Moyencourt, and any other noble knights and esquires of the duke's household.

On the part of the Dauphinois were, the lord de Conflans*, the baron d'Ivry, the lord de Ioy, the lord d'Eschin, Louis d'Offemont, sir Gilles de Gamaches, his son Louis de Gamaches, Coton de Saintrailles+, sir Regnault de Fontaines, sir Charles de Saint-Saulieu, John de roisy governor of Guise, the marquis de Scare and his brother, Pierron de Luppel, John aulet, sir John de Rogan, sir Raoul de Gaucourt, sir Louis de Thiembronne, the lord de [ommor, Bernard de St. Martin, Thibaut de Gerincourt, Galhaut d'Aarsy, sir Sarrasin de

* Probably Eustace IV., lord of Conflans, a distinished house of Champagne.

+ John Poton, lord of Saintrailles, marshal of France

in 1454, a gentleman of Gascony, and a very distinguished partisan of the dauphin.

Beaufort, Robinet de Verseilles, his brother John de Joigny, Yvon du Puys, John de Sommam, Hervé and John de Dourdis and some more. They had under their command about five or six hundred men-at-arms, and from three to four hundred most able archers whom they had selected from different garrisons.

CHAPTER CCXLVIII.-NEWS OF THE LATE VICTORY IS MADE PUBLIC IN DIFFERENT PARTS | -THE CAPTURE OF THE FORT OF DOUVRIER.-THE DEPARTURE OF THE DUKE BURGUNDY FROM HESDIN.

On the morrow of this victory of the duke of Burgundy, the news was spread abroad divers places, which gave great joy to all of his party, more particularly to the inhabitants d Montrieul and the adjacent country. Soon after, sir John de Blondel, who was but late returned from his imprisonment in England, collected a body of the gentlemen of that neig bourhood, among whom was sir Olivier de Brimeu, a very ancient knight, and some of th inhabitants of Montrieul, and led them to the fort of Douvrier, then held by the mɛɛ Poton de Saintrailles. He addressed them so eloquently and ably that they agreed surrender the place to him, on condition that they should be safely escorted to St. Riqui which was done; and he regarrisoned it, to make head against the Dauphinois.

When the duke of Burgundy had disposed of his troops to oppose the further progress the enemy to his satisfaction, he left Hesdin, and went to Lille; thence he made a pilgrimag to our Lady at Halle, and returned to Flanders, where he made a considerable stay, to atte to his affairs in that country.

CHAPTER CCXLIX.-THE KING OF ENGLAND CONQUERS DREUX, AND PURSUES THE DAUPHIN HE THEN LAYS SIEGE TO MEAUX IN BRIE, AND OTHER MATTERS.

We will now return to the king of England, and relate how he conducted himself. Wh the duke of Burgundy left him at Mantes, as has been before mentioned, he marched the his army, which was very large, and daily increasing from the reinforcements that joi him from Normandy and Paris, and advanced to Dreux after the dauphin had raised siege of Chartres. He surrounded Dreux on all sides; but the garrison made a treaty, which they were to surrender the place on the 20th of August, in case they were succoured by their lord the dauphin before that day, and gave good hostages for i due performance of it. The dauphin sent them no assistance, so that king Henry obtain possesssion of Dreux, which he strongly regarrisoned with his own men. The Dauphins in number about eight hundred, retired with their baggage, after they had promised not bear arms against the English, or their allies, for one whole year.

When this was done, the king marched toward the river Loire, in pursuit of the dauphi whom he was very desirous to meet, to revenge the death of his brother the duke of Clare and the loss of the English who had fallen at the battle of Baugey. On his march, he redne to the obedience of the king of France and of himself, the town of Beaugency on the L and some other castles. Finding that the dauphin would not wait to give him battle, returned toward Beauce. He had noticed that for some days fifty or sixty Dauphinois, well mounted, had followed his army to observe his motions: on their one day coming to him than usual, he ordered them to be pursued, when they fled to the castle of Rougend, in Beauce, which the king commanded to be instantly attacked; and this was attended such success that it was won, and all within taken, with the loss of only only one man. King Henry, however, in revenge for his death, caused them all to be drowned the Loire.

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He thence marched to besiege Villeneuve-le-Roi, which soon submitted, on the garr being allowed to march away with their baggage. It was regarrisoned by Englishm Toward the end of September, he fixed his head-quarters at Lagny-sur-Marne, and his ar was dispersed in the adjoining villages. At this town he ordered many wooden engines be constructed, and other necessary machines to lay seige to Meaux in Brie. He despatche

n haste his uncle the duke of Exeter, with four thousand combatants, to gain possession of the suburbs of Meaux, that the inhabitants might not set them on fire.

When king Henry had completed his machines in the town of Lagny, he marched his rmy thence, consisting of twenty thousand combatants at the least, and on the 6th day of October encamped before Meaux. A few days after, he had his camp surrounded with trong hedges and ditches, to prevent any surprise from the enemy, and at the same time ad his engines pointed to batter the walls and gates, which they continued to do with great ctivity. The defence of the town of Meaux was intrusted by the dauphin to the bastard le Vaurus, captain-general of the place, Denys de Vaurus his brother, Pierron de Luppel, Guichard de Sisay, sir Philip Mallet, sir Louis Gast, the borgne de Caucun, John d'Aunay, Tromagon, Bernard de Meureville, Philip de Gamaches, and others, to the amount of one housand picked combatants, tried in arms, without including the burghers and commonalty. They made an obstinate defence against the attacks of the king of England, and continued for a long time, as you shall hear.

In these days it was enacted by the royal council at Paris, that the florettes, which were urrent for four deniers, should be reduced to two deniers; and that the gold crowns, current or nineteen sols, should now pass for eighteen only. These continued lowerings of the coin gave great cause of discontent among all ranks, seeing that their money-property was iminished an eighth part in value. To keep up a supply of coin, saluts of gold were issued, which were current for twenty-five sols tournois the piece: two crown-pieces were also oined, one of France and the other of England. In regard to smaller money, doubles were oined that were current for two deniers tournois: these last were in the vulgar tongue alled Nicquets, but were not current for more than three years.

CHAPTER CCL.-THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY ENTERS INTO A TREATY WITH HIS PRISONERS FOR THE SURRENDER OF ST. RIQUIER, TO WHICH THE LORD D'OFFEMONT, GOVERNOR OF THE PLACE, AGREES.

THE duke of Burgundy was very desirous to get rid of the Dauphinois from the town of St. Riquier, as they committed much mischief on the country round about; and during the nonth of November, he had frequent conversations on this subject with the principal prisoners whom he had made at the affair of Mons in Vimeu. At length, a treaty was concluded between the duke, on the one part, and the lord d'Offemont, governor of St. Riquier, and the leaders of his garrison, on the other, by which it was agreed, that the duke should set at liberty all prisoners whom he or his army had taken since he had first come before St. Riquier, free of ransoms; and in return sir Hemon de Bomber, sir John de Blondel, Ferry de Mailly, John de Beaurevoir, John de Crevecoeur and some others, were to be delivered from their confinement, and also the town and castle of St. Riquier were to be put in possession of the duke.

Not long after the conclusion of this treaty, sir Hemon de Bomber died in St. Riquier of a lingering disorder, which so angered the duke that he would have violated the treaty, if his counsellors had not persuaded him to the contrary. At last, he sent his prisoners under an escort from Lille to Hesdin, and thence with passports they were conducted to the lord d'Offemont, who delivered up the prisoners he had promised, and the town and castle of St. Riquier, into the hands of the lords de Roubaix and de Croy, who had been commissioned for that purpose by the duke.

The lord d'Offemont, on his departure from St. Riquier, crossed the Somme at Blanchetaque and returned through Vimeu to Pierrefons, Crespy in the Valois, and to other places under his obedience. The lords de Roubaix and de Croy, after examining the town and castle, and receiving the oaths of allegiance from the inhabitants, nominated governors thereof le borgne de Fosscaux knight, master Nicholas Mailly, and his brother Ferry de Mailly, Nycaise de Boufflers, John Doncuerre, with others, and their men, to keep the field against sir James de Harcourt.

* Saluts, an old French crown, of the value of five shillings sterling.-Cotgrave.

CHAPTER CCLI.-THE BURGUNDIAN LORDS ASSEMBLE IN ARMS TO CONDUCT THITHER THE DUKE FROM PICARDY.-OTHER MATTERS.

ABOUT this time, in consequence of summonses from the duke and duchess dowage Burgundy, the nobles of that duchy assembled in arms, and went to the duke in Picar to escort him thither, where his presence was much desired by the duchess, to consult 1 public affairs that were very pressing. They amounted to six thousand horse, and be their march under the command of the prince of Orange, the lords de St. George de Château Vilain, Sir John de Colquebrune marshal of Burgundy, and other lords r captains, through Champagne, to near Lille in Flanders. The principal lords left their mo in the adjacent villages, and waited on the duke in Lille, who received them with joy.

As the duke was not quite ready to set out, they were requested by sir John Luxembourg to join him and make an attack on the lords de Moy and de Chin, who we Dauphinois, and had greatly destroyed his own estates, as well as those of his daughter. law the countess of Marle. They agreed to his proposal; and, as he had assembled ac eight hundred combatants, they advanced to St. Quentin, where they lay the first n and then continued their march. When they approached the castle of Moy, the residence of the lord of that name, they were told that he was absent, but had left it provided with men, stores and provisions: he had also burnt the lower court, and sever houses of the town that joined the castle. The Burgundians, foreseeing that the castle not be won without a long siege, and great loss of men, concluded among themsel notwithstanding the entreaties of sir John de Luxembourg, to return to Douay and L They did great mischiefs to all the countries they passed through, as well going as returning and during their stay, of which heavy complaints were made to the duke by churchmen others, more particularly from Picardy: to all these clamours he replied, that he would v shortly deliver them from their oppressors, by remanding them to Burgundy. Sir John Luxembourg, vexed and cast down by the Burgundian lords leaving him, disbanded his forces, and retired to his castle of Beaurevoir.

On the 16th day of December, the duke and duchess of Burgundy arrived at Arras vi count Philip de St. Pol and a grand suite of chivalry. Soon after, sir John de Luxember, came thither, and the Burgundian lords; and on the third after his arrival the duke to visit his aunt the countess of Hainault at Douay, and conducted her and her househol Arras, where she was honourably received by the duchess and the lords and ladies of court. She remained there three or four days, during which many grand entertainm were made for her. Having held some conferences with her nephew, she returned Quesnoy le Comte in Hainault, where she generally resided.

CHAPTER CCLII. SIR JAMES DE HARCOURT MEETS A PARTY OF ENGLISH, AND IS DEFEAT WITH LOSS.-A HEAVY TAX LAID FOR A COINAGE TO SUPPLY THE TOWNS WILE

CURRENT CASH.

ABOUT this period, sir James de Harcourt, making an excursion with six or seven hund combatants, was met by a party of English, who had accidentally assembled from Har Neuf-châtel, and the adjoining parts, to seek adventures on their enemies the Dauphin An obstinate battle ensued; but in the end the English gained the victory, and sir Jas lost from two to three hundred men in killed and prisoners: he himself and the grea part of the knights and esquires saved themselves by the fleetness of their horses. Am the prisoners was the lord de Verduisant, at that time one of the governors of St. Valery the dauphin. The English were joyful at their success, and returned to the places they come from with their prisoners.

At this time there was imposed through many parts of the kingdom, and rigoro exacted, especially in the bailiwick of Amiens, a heavy tax, which had been granted by three estates, at the request of the kings of France and of England. The object of this

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