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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01155	A discourse of such things as are happened in the armie of my lordes the princes of Nauarre, and of Condey, since the moneth of September last. 1568 Seene and allowed.		1569 (1569)	STC 11269; ESTC S112655	7,180	26

A discourse of such things as are happened in the armie of my lordes the princes of Nauarre and of Condey since the moneth of September last 1568. Seene and allowed ¶ Jmprinted at London by Henry Bynneman for Lucas Haryson 1569. A Discourse of things happened in Fraunce since the Moneth of September Anno. 1568. WHan Gods goodnesse and prouidence with manifest help and fatherly care had withdrawn as al mē know the Prince of Condyes grace and my Lord the Admiral from the extreme perill and almost vnaduoydable daunger of their liues in whiche they were at Noyers and Tanlag he guyded and conducted them to Rochel from one parte of the Realme to the other without any harme or daunger with their wyues and children yea their cradles and nourses with small trayne and greate iourneys by bye wayes villages vnhandsome and ill appoynted Not long after continuing his goodnesse and fauour towardes Monsieur Dandelot which was in Britayne so assisted him that thoughe he were pursued by the Lordes Montpensier and Martigues accompanied with great strength both of footemen and horsemen to hynder his ioyning with the prince this notwithstanding beyonde al expectation he passed ouer the riuer of Loyre with all his troupe in their sight at a foorde whiche was neuer marked or knowen of the dwellers them selues The fauour of God appeared also in the passage of the Queene of Nauarre and the Prince hir sonne whiche went through the whole countrey of Gascoigne passed the riuer of Garonne Dordoigne with other riuers foordes and perillous streights though they were straightly followed by the Lordes of Montluc Terides Descare and Losses with great force without any hyndrance at all The like was séene also in the passage of Monsieur Dacier whiche marched with all his troupe thorough the whole countreys of Dalphine Languedoc and Gascoigne to méete with my lordes the Princes in the sight and knowledge of the Lorde Ioyeuse which had expresse charge to stay hym so that in despite of the sayd Princes enemies they haue gathered together from all corners of this realme to the number of fiue and twenty thousande hargebouziers and fiue or sixe thousande horsemen notwithstanding the order taken by their sayd enemies at all portes bridges straights and passages and hauing their armie ready foure monethes before wherwith God be thanked they coulde neuer touche the sayde Lordes princes or let them from taking of their townes of S. Maxant Fontenay Nyort Coignac Xantes S. Iohn d' Angely Angoulesme Ponts Bourg Taillebourg Taillemont and other townes from the riuer of Gyronde vnto the suburbes of Salmure vpon Loyre some by composition and other some by force And though the same were done in the sight of all men but onely that the sayde Lorde Princes were at the siege before the sayd towne of Ponts they were aduertised that the sayde Lord of Assier was arriued with his troupe at Aubeterre whiche was with a hundreth and thrée score enseignes of footemē beyng in number a fourtene thousand harguebouziers and sixe thousande pikemen twelue hundreth horsemen and that the enimies had sodenly taken the Captayne Mauuance and the Captayne Pieregourdis and had ouerthrowen them with certayne number of their souldiers whiche caused the sayde Princes fearyng some greater mischief to marche with their armie towardes the sayde place of Aubeterre myndyng to fyght with the enemies yf they woulde stande to it who so soone as they had newes of the Princes comming remoued incontinēt And bicause they vnderstoode they toke the way to Poitiers they determined to ouertake them if it might be with as great iourneys as was possible séeking al meanes to make them come to the battayle wherein they vsed suche diligence that the thirde day they were so nygh them that where the fore warde of the sayde Princes lodged the enemies were vnlodged a little before and oftentimes they found their bread munition and cariage so that seing them selues pursued so nygh they were constrained to retire to Chastellerault and those partes where they entrenched them selues and their artillerie and mette with Monsieur the kinges brother with new force And for that it was reported by the Gentlemen that wer sent to descry them neare that the commyng to them was so daungerouse and harde that it had bene to no purpose and without reason to assayle them in their campe whiche they had so well fortified with trenches and so well prouided with munition and artillery whiche dyd so beate the sayde commers therto that it had ben vnpossible to kepe aray without great losse of men it was determined to present them selues to the sight of the army to sée if they would come out of their fort whiche was done by the lord Admiral with his foreward whiche he kept a whole day in battayle raye on the top of a hill from whence they might sée the sayde towne of Chastellerault but the enemies made no coūtenance of comming out to them For this cause deuising howe they might get them out of their forte to a place where the sayd princes might fight with them they caused their army to marche towardes Mirebalois whiche is a very good and frutefull countrey and whence their enemies had their most commoditie of vittayles where the said princes might best vittayle their men to the hinderance of their enemies And drawing thetherward it hapned that the enimies appoynted to lodge at the same place where the Princes army was appointed And that monsieur the Admiral and Monsieur Dandelot his brother approchyng nyghe their lodgyng accompanyed wyth foure or fiue Hundreth horsemen at the most they discryed their enimies whiche had all their horsemen of the fore warde to the number of two thousande horse So that the sayd Admirall sent incontinently on all partes for al the troupes of horsemē as well of the battayle as of the foreward delaying still tyll the sayde Princes began to appeare with their battayle and other troupes of the fore warde which somewhat abashed the enemies then they caused certayn harquebouziers to approche nygh the enimies and there was shot on bothe sides but bicause it was vpon the closing in of day and beganne to waxe very darke the battayle was deferred tyll the next day at which tyme the sayd Princes with al their armies began to marche by breake of day straight to the place where they had left their enemies the euen before and the sayde princes perceyuing that they were departed caused certayne cornettes of horsemen to post after the said enemies to descry whiche way they toke and to assay once againe if they coulde prouoke them to fight Whiche they dyd to a village named Sausay where the lordes of Guyse Martigues Brissac Tauannes Sansac and diuerse other had lyen that night who were not the last that toke their héeles and that with such hast that they left all their cariage behinde them whiche was not lesse woorth than two hundreth thousand crownes and eyght or nyne score drawing horses with