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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

certayne pouder The sayd Princes being aduertised that all the fore warde of the enemies was out of aray and confused and that Mountsalan amongest others was put to flight and the most part of his company slayne and taken and had their cornettes and enseignes they began to marche as fast as they coulde after them to ouertake them whiche they coulde not do till they came to a village named Iazeneuil into whiche the enemies retyred and where the Kings brother had fortified and trenched himselfe with his artillerye Where the Princes gaue them the brauest skirmishe that euer was geuē by memory of mā which lasted no lesse than fower or fyue long houres where was shot on bothe sides aboue fourescore thousand harquebouze shot and three hundreth seuen and thirtie great shot on the enemies syde only for that the Princes great shot was not brought from the siege of Ponts and it was found by the cōfession of the enimies themselues that they lost at this skirmishe fiue or sixe hundreth Souldioures and fiftene or sixtene Captaines and on the Princes side there were two hundreth hurt and slain Yet it was written to the Quéene by some of hir trusty seruaunts that are in the enimies campe that neuer French kings sōne was in so great danger as my Lord the kings brother for the space of thrée dayes and thrée nights and in déede it is moste certaine that at the same skirmish the said Princes footemen wanne the trenches twise or thrise and set vpon the Artillerie and killed some at their péeces yea that many of the Souldioures entred into certaine houses which were within the enimies Fort and brought away armor and eate and dranke whereof they had great nede for that thrée dayes togither they wanted vitailes yet were they so paciēt and so desirous to fight that they forgatte the hunger that they suffred This skirmish being ended by the means of the night the saide Princes ordained that the next day by breake of day they should present them selues in the same place of Iazeuenil to sée if they coulde prouoke the enimie to fight Which was done but none of the enimies durst shew their heades sauing a hundreth or sixe score horsemen and that so nighe their fort that it was impossible to buckle with them Since they had newes that they were retired to Luzignon and thence to Poitiers which caused the said Princes to lodge their armie in the Countrey of Myrebalois wher they found great quātitie of bread and munitiō that the enimies had caused to be prouided and vnderstāding that they wer come to lodge at Ausance which is within a league of Poitiers and foure leagues frō the place wher the said Princes lodged they prepared them suche an enterprise that the saide Lord Admirall with a thousande horsmē and only two thousand harquebouziers droue the said enimies into the sayd village of Ausance bet them from a bridge which was there and put all the armie to flight who retired into Poitiers in great disorder and confusion with the losse of many of their men of all their cariage And although things passed in this wise yet are the said enimies so shamelesse that they giue out rumours wholly contrary to the truthe yea they sent letters to the Court wherein they were not ashamed to send worde that they withstoode the said Princes where continually they put thē to flight sought all meanes possible to prouoke them to fight Whereto the said Lords Princes séeing their enimies haue so little lust by reson of the ill successe that they had in the former encounters to enforce thē to fight and will they nill they to preuent such subtilties and disguisings as they cōmonly vsed this other day in the sight of their enimies and of all theyr campe they toke a towne and castle belonging to one of the principall heads of their armie although the sayd Towne was furnished with men artillerie all other kinde of munition as he to whom it belongeth hathe had good meane and leisure to do the taking whereof shal be so cleare and euident witnesse of it self of the faint courage that they haue to fight that they shall neuer be able hereafter to disguise coloure their cowardise as they haue done heretofore Afterward the said Lord Princes séeing that neither the taking of the sayde towne castle nor anye other occasion that they could giue to the enimies could prouoke them to fight and that they kept them selues alwayes on the farther side of the riuer of Clain whyther they fled when they were driuen from Ausance hauing further a good riuer before them sonke all the boates to hinder any enterprise that might be attempted against them giuing out that they taried for the strength that came with the Seigneur of Ioyeuse which they saide was of sixe thousande hargebouziers fiftene hundreth horse men and then they determined to fight with the armie of the said princes This caused the Princes to giue them newe occasion to passe the riuer to encrease their will and desire to fight to force in their sight the towne of Salmure which is a passage of the Riuer of Loire which draue the enimies into suche a ielousie that they prepared themselues to hinder the said Princes from taking of that towne and for this cause they marched forth their armie lodging their fotemen in one of the Suburbes but when the batterie was readie tidings came that the ennimies had passed ouer the Riuer of Clain making a countenaunce to come to the rescuing of Salmure with the forse of the Lorde of Ioyeuse which was arriued two or thrée dayes before which made the saide Princes immediately to raise their siege from Salmure causing their armie to marche straight vpon the enimies which was easie to be done for that there was no riuer betwéene them and the said enimies which they mette before the towne of Loudun which were appointed to lodge in the Suburbes wher their lodging was ordained from whence my Lorde the Admirall raised them so that they retired and camped in the places villages about the saide Loudun The next day the two armies faced one an other their scoutes being within an hundreth paces the one of the other They shot their Ordinaunce on bothe partes and so passed all that day with certain small skirmishes only And although the enimies had encamped thē selues to the vauntage which commonly they do that chose their place first and might haue approched the sayd Princes armie without any daunger which the said Princes could not doe to them yet when they stept two paces the Princes armie stept foure to ioyne with them two dayes after the sayde two armies met againe in the same places as they likewise did the day after yt. But the Princes could neuer gette them from theyr vauntage which is maruellous considering the bruites that they gaue abrode that they were so strengthned with the Lord of Ioyeuses power that they determined not

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