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A51199	The commentaries of Messire Blaize de Montluc, mareschal of France wherein are describ'd all the combats, rencounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, scalado's, the taking and surprizes of towns and fortresses, as also the defences of the assaulted and besieg'd : with several other signal and remarkable feats of war, wherein this great and renowned warriour was personally engag'd, in the space of fifty or threescore years that he bore arms under several kings of France : together with divers instructions, that such ought not to be ignorant of, as propose to themselves by the practice of arms to arrive at any eminent degree of honor, and prudently to carry on all the exploits of war.; Commentaires de messire Blaise de Monluc. English. 1674	Monluc, Blaise, seigneur de, 1500?-1577.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1674 (1674)	Wing M2506; ESTC R37642	835,371	442

night following I brought the Artillery into the Town and began to batter some Lodgings on the left hand at the end of which was a Turret that cover'd the Draw-bridg and the Gate of the Castle and by Evening the said Buildings were opened and the Turret beaten down to the Ground In the morning by break of day we began to batter the great Tower where the Clock was which whilst we were doing our Soldiers gain'd the Gate of the Town which was within ten paces or less of that of the Castle and that lookt a little into their false-Brayes but there was a great Terrass a Pike height and as much in thickness made of Bavins after the manner of a Rampire that cover'd their Draw-bridg so that our people could not do them so muc● harm as they did us to remedy which inconvenience we made a Blind of some barrels and planks in that place which something secur'd our men that lay before the said Portal All day long our Artillery batter'd the face of the Tower and in the end the said Tower was opened after which I made them shoot from the other Battery which play'd into the Castle till the next day which was the third at noon but could see no issue of the business At this time Monsieur de Fontenilles and Captain Moret came with the piece of Canon and the great Culverine from Tholouze but they did us no service at all for the Culverine burst in an hundred pieces and the Canon was crackt I then caused two pieces of Canon to be remov'd to the left hand close by the Wall of the Town that pointed upon the other Face of the Castle upon the left wherein my intention was if I could to make the Tower fall on our side which if I could effect it would choak up the Ditch that was full of water and fill the false-Brayes on that side by which means we might go on to the Assault over the ruine which I made account would infall●bly fill the Graffe for the Tower was very high All the fourth day I batter'd the face of this Tower with these two pieces of Canon and in the end beat it down so that nothing remain'd standing but the right side and the corners I then caused them to shoot at the first Corner which lookt towards the Artillery I had first planted on the left hand and with two pieces that I was all night removing at the other Corner that look't towards the Town In ten or twelve shots the Coins was broken and the Tower fall'n on our side exact●y in the place where I would have it but how high or how thick soever the Tower was it did not so wholly ●ill the Graffe but that we were to descend a great way into it It is true that the ruines had drunk up the water and fill'd a good part of the Ditch but not so that we were not yet to go very low The fifth day at night the Sieur de Basillac and the Baron de St. Lary brought me fifty or threescore Pioneers for all mine were stoln away and fled and they had raised these amongst their own Tenants upon their own Estates which lay hard by I gave these fellows to Monsieur de Leberon and Captain Montaut his Brother-in-law with thirty or fourty Soldiers that the Captains l' Artigue and Solles made to take upon them the office of Pioneers their Captains themselves assisting them at the work The service they were employ'd about was to take away the Terrass that the Artillery might look into the Draw-bridg and batter the side of it and that the Ball might pass all along by the Flank and into the Courtine along the Breach within The Enemy had also made a Barricado in the Chambers above so that a man could not p●ssibly see any thing on one of the two sides I gave the charge of removing the two pieces of Canon to the place where Monsieur de Leberon drew away the Terrass to the Vicount d'llza and my self went to take a little repose for this was the fifth night that I had not had a whole hour of sleep By break of day I heard the two Canons play but could not believe it possible that in that one night all the Terrass could be remov'd at least all that was in our way Our Artillery began to play its feats all along this Flank and it cost us a great many shot to break this Barricado which did us infinite mischief for they shot desperately into our Canon I then made the Vicount d'Vza Monsieur de Leberon and Captain Montaut to go to rest and left Monsieur de Basillac to assist the Artillery After this we caused a hole to be made in the Wall of the Town close by our Artillery that we might come to it in security from without for from within it was impossible without being kill'd or wounded The fourth day of our Siege I had given to Captain Bahus the charge of causing Gabions to be made who had accordingly taken great pains and been very diligent in the execution of his Command but he had caused them to be made so little that the wind of the Canon had presently shaked them all to pieces an error that a man must take care to avoid Our Cavalry all this while was quarter'd in Villages a league and a half from the Leaguer where there was accommodation of Hay and Oats for the Horses with instruction and command to be every night all night long in the field to prevent any relief from getting in for the very day that we came to Rabasteins we had taken a great Packet of Letters sent by Monsieur de Montamat to the Vicount de Caumont Monsieur d' Audax and several other Gentlemen to the number of thirty or fourty Letters wherein he sollicited them if ever they desir'd to do an opportune and signal service for the Queen of Navarre and the Prince to come succour the Country of Bearn for that they were not strong enough to defend the Country if they did not come in to their relief that he had already writ to them twice or thrice but had received no answer that therefore he should send him word when they should be ready and he would in one night make so long a march as to come and joyn with them immediately to march altogether into Bearn or that otherwise he must be constrain'd to abandon the open Country wa●ting Forces to make head against us and that he saw he had not now to do with Monsieur de Terride The reading of which Letters made us to pitch upon the following resolution First To send to the Baron de Larbous that he should bring Monsieur de Gramont's Company of Gens-d'arms from the higher Comenge to come and joyn with us that in so doing he should make a halt thereabouts where the relief was of necessity to pass and that night and day he should keep his Horse upon the

in danger they being twenty for one and that therefore it was better to stay for Monsieur de Burie than commit such an error which would neither be approved of by the King nor by any other person whatever Whereupon I granted them that what they said was very true but that nevertheless we saw all the Gentry in Guienne in fear and though it be true said I that you are not here above thirty Gentlmen yet the whole Country is possest with so great a terror that they dare not rise against them to assist us which when they shall hear that we came to face them without daring to fight will be so augmented that in eight dayes time we shall have all the whole Country against us therefore fall back fall edge it is my opinion that we ought rather to hazard the losing our selves by fighting than by avoiding the Combat which is equally pernicious especially considering that all things are in the hands of God I have already tasted these people where I have had the fortune to meet them and have found them men of very little resolution believe me they will never stand us and we shall certainly rout them neither ought we to have come so near if we had not intended to fight and moreover you see that they are about to steal off and to escape away As to what concerns our overthrow should it so fall out Bourdeaux will notwithstanding be in no more danger to be lost for that Monsieur de Burie being there and a Court of Parliament to defend it Monsieur de Seignan then being the oldest in the Company answered and said that it was very true we should have all the Country infallibly upon us and therefore seeing we were reduc't to this necessity and that there was no hope of Monsieur de Burie's coming up to us we ought to fight whereupon they all in general began to cry let us fight let us fight when as we were mounting to horse the Mareschal de Termes his Quarter-master called Moncorneil came up to us and told me that their Company having been on horseback from the beginning of the night they had been necessitated to stay and bait at Seuve at which news I was almost fit to despair The two foot Companies were marching as fast as they could but it was so excessively hot that we scorcht as we stood however Moncorneil seeing us going to fight gallop't away to la Seuve to make Captain Masses mount to horse We then marcht on the left hand of the Enemy when being come within two Harquebuze shot of them I divided my horse into two Troops we might in all be betwixt a hundred and sixscore Light-horse for I had not above thirty Launces in my Company it having been that of Monsieur de la Guiche and the Soldiers being almost all gone home to their own houses excepting a very few and I could not supply their places with others The Enemy still by little and little mounted this Hill sending most of their Harquebuz●ers down into the Copse below which was there very thick and to come to them we were to march thorough a great high-way enclos'd on both sides with Vines I made Captain Charry follow in their Rear and gave one of my Troops to my Son Captain Montluc and Fontenilles with the Cornet of Guidons and kept to my self the other Cornet of Gens-d'armes which was carried by Monsieur de Berdusan the Seneschal of Bazadois When we came to the Vines I saw we could not pass them to come to fight and therefore took on the left hand under the Vineyards Captain Montluc was about two hundred paces before me who seeing us take on the left hand they marcht on by the higher way before us and when we were got clear of the Vines and some ditches that were there we saw Captain Montluc still making on to gain the top of the Hill to whom I then joyn'd Monsieur de Sainctorens with his Harquebuzeers on horseback and kept with me the Baron of Clermont who also had some few Now so soon as we came within betwixt twenty and thirty paces of them they began to fire and not before whereupon the Harquebuzeers of Monsieur de Sainctorens fir'd also whilst in the mean time Captain Montluc charg'd full drive into the middle of all their Horse I had an eye to him and at the same instant a little on the left hand charg'd quite thorough their Foot where we routed and put them to flight but not without having first stood our shock and maintain'd their ground Their Horse seeing their 〈◊〉 defeated fled down the Hill all along by the Wood and the Foot I enclosed in the Copse Though being we had no Foot to do execution for every one knows that Horse do not stay to kill but pursue the victory there was not many men slain yet though their loss was not very great the reputation of the Victory was of as great advantage to us as the shame of the defeat was prejudicial to them and every one on our side began to take heart as they and those of their Religion began to lose it bo●h Gentry and Common people now taking a●ms and declaring for us My Son had two horses kill'd under him and was himself wounded in two places both the horses were mine and one of them was my gray Turk which next to my children I lov'd above all things in the world for he had three times sa●'d my life or at least my liberty The Duke de Paliano had given him me at Rome I never had nor ever hope again to have so good a Horse as that was The Prince of Conde would fain have had him of me but I put him off as well as I could for I saw that such a Treasure was not every where to be found Monsieur de Seignan lost his the V●count d'Vza and the Count de Candalle their 's also to be short after the charge we rallyed upon the very place where we had fought and found that in so great a necessity we could not make twenty horse to fight had the Enemy rallied upon us almost all the horses being either kill'd or shot and above the third part of our men but they had not the judgment to examine their own condition nor ours neither and I must needs say it was one of the rud●st and most furious charges without a Battail that ever I was in my whole life neither can it be said that they ran away for fear without being fought f●r they fac'd about upon us either to give or to receive the charge and in plain truth I did not expect to have found them so brave We lost upon the place but one Gentleman call'd Monsieur de Vigneaux only but two or three that were wounded died after of their wounds From the top of this Hill we discover'd the Enemy marching off as fast as they could and saw that they

in his hearing said to the Priest ●o get him from thence Pray Father go down and tell Corporal Janin that my Lord is at the Gate where he stays to speak with him and at the same time himself also departed from the window pretending to go down whereupon Captain Favas and his Soldiers ran to open the Gate which was only bolted and all on a suddain leap'd upon the Bridge Seeing this the Count who was one of the most active men of all Italy and who held his horse by the bridle the best one of them that ever that Country bred and which I afterwards gave to Monsieur de Tais vaulted over a little wall which was near to the Bridge drawing his horse after him with intent to have leap'd into the Saddle for there was no horse so tall provided he could lay his hand upon the Pummel but he could a●m'd at all pieces vault into the Seat but he was prevented by the Bastard of Bazordan call'd Ianot yet living and then of my Company who by misfortune being he either could not or would not get over the wall to lay hands upon him let fly at him an Harquebuze which taking the default of his Arms went into his belly piercing thorough his bowels almost to the other side of which shot he sunk down to the ground Captain Favas took his Nephew and another the Trumpet but the other Gentleman escap'd down the Hill crying out that the Count was either kill'd or taken whereupon the Lieutenant and all his Company skutled to horse in so great a fright that they never look'd behind them till they came to Fossan Had it so fallen out that Ianin at the second entry had not been slain they had not only snap'd the Count and by degrees all his whole Troop for they might have compell'd him to have spoke to them with a dagger at his reins ready to stab him should he make a sign but moreover might perhaps from hence have spun out some contrivance against Fossan it self for one Enterprize draws on another These things being done they in the evening dispatch'd away Captain Milhas a Gentleman of my Company to bring me the news and to relate to me from point to point how all things had passed together with a Letter from the said Count wherein he entreated me seeing he was my prisoner and that greater advantage was to be made of his life than of his death to do him the courtesie as to send him with all speed a Physician a Chirurgeon and an Apothecany Captain Milhas arriv'd just at the time that they open'd the Gates of the City so that he found me putting on my cloaths and there related to me the whole business thereby delivering me from the great anxiety and trouble wherein from Sunday till Wednesday I had continually remain'd for though I was really concerned for the place yet was I much more afflicted for the loss of my Lieutenant and my Soldiers who were most of them Gentlemen and all very brave men Immediately upon the news I ran to Monsieur de Termes his Lodgings whom I found sick a bed but I dare say that neither he nor I were ever so overjoy'd for we both very well knew that had it fallen out otherwise there were Rods in piss So soon as I departed from him I presently sent away a Phisician a Chirurgeon and an Apothecary whom I mounted upon three horses of my own for the more speed neither did they either stop or stay until they came thither but it was impossible to save him for he died about midnight and was brought to Savillan whom every one had a desire to see even Monsieur de Termes himself as sick as he was and he was very much lamented by all The next day I sent the Body to Fossan but detein'd the Nephew and Trumpet with the rest that were taken prisoners at Barges until they should send me back the Wife and Son of the said Granuchin which the next day they did and I also deliver'd up all the Prisoners I beseech you Captains you who shall see and hear this Relation to consider whether or no this was a stratag●m for a Merchant believe me the oldest Captain would have been puzled and have had enough to carry it on with so much dexterity and resolution as he did wherein although Captain Favas was the performer of it when it came to execution nevertheless the Merchant was not only the original contriver but also a principal Actor throughout the whole business having the heart in order to his revenge to expose his Wife and Son to the extreamest danger In reading of which fellows in Arms you may learn diligence with temper and take notice what sleights and polices were used and continued for the space of four days together such as no man either of theirs or which is more of our own could possibly discover both parties being held equally suspended The Count for a prudent Cavalier behav'd himself herein with very great levity especially upon the second Letter but he repair'd his fault when he refused to enter the Castle without first seeing his man though that caution signified nothing as it fell out Whenever therefore you design an enterprize weigh every thing and never go hand over head and without precipitating your selves or being too easie of beliefe upon light foundations judge and consider whether there be any appearance or likelyhood in the thing for I have seen more deceived than otherwise and whatever assurance is given you or whatever promises may be made be sure to raise your Counter-battery and never rely so wholly upon him who is to carry on the work but that you have still a reserve to secure your venture should his faith or conduct fa●l It s not I confess well done to condemn him who has the management of an affair if it do not succeed for men should always be attempting how ever they speed and hit or miss 't is all one provided there be neither treason nor absurdity in the case Men must try and fail for being we are to con●ide in men no one can see into their hearts but however go warily to work I have ever been of opinion and do think that every good Captain ought to have the same that it is better to assault a place upon a surprize where no one is privy to the design than to have perhaps some Traytor for your Guide for as much as you are certain there can be no counter-treason against you and though you fail you retire with the less danger for your enemy can have laid no ambuscados to entrap you Caesar de Naples being this day at Carmagnolle had there news brought to him of the Count's disaster and death at which he was extremely afflicted and to secure F●ssan would send thither three Companies of Italians which had formerly been in Garrison there to wit that of Blaise de Somme a Neapolitan that of Baptista a

situate upon a Plain and so open that a bird could not stir without being seen and there they plyed us with their Canon till they had not left a house standing in the whole Village insomuch that we were constrain'd to secure our selves in the Cellars under ground I had pitch'd my Pavillions very cunningly betwixt two Walls but they beat down both Walls and Pavillions in my life I never saw a more furious Counter-battery The night following the Mareschal de Strozzy past the River with Monsieur de Guise and we began to cast up our Trenches along this Plain where we lay seven or eight dayes before we could approach within two hundred paces of the City by reason the nights were short and by day they did so thunder the Trenches that there was no working but by night The Mareschal never stirr'd from us unless he went sometimes to his Tents which yet remain'd on the other side of the water to shift his clothes and that not above once in three dayes He gave me leave to make the Trenches according to my own fancy for we had at first begun them a little two narrow through the wisdom of an Engineer At every twenty paces I made a back corner or return winding sometimes to the left hand and sometimes to the right which I made so large that there was room for twelve or fifteen Soldiers with their Harquebuzes and Halberts and this I did to the end that should the Enemy gain the head of the Trench and should leap into it those in the back corner might fight them they being much more Masters of the Trench than they who were in the straight line an invention that both the Mareschal and the Duke did very well approve of Monsieur de Guise then told me that I must send to discover what effect our Artillery had wrought against the Tower and that I must do it by valiant persons In order whereunto I took with me Captain Sarlabous the younger Millac St. Estephe Cipiere and Captain Montluc my Son and went So soon as we came near unto the Tower we were to pass over certain little Bridges the Enemy had made by which to pass over the Marish to the Tower and being come to the Tower we found a Pallisado of posts as thick as a man's thigh that from the Tower went seven or eight paces into the River and we were to go all along by the Pallisado in water to the end of it and afterwards on the other side of the Pallisado to return to the Tower We had made two Soldiers bring two Pikes along with us I for my part did not go into the water but all the rest past the Pallisado after this manner and one after another view'd the breach that had been made in the Tower and they put a Soldier into it by a Pike and found that within the Tower there was water up to the arm-pits and being the River made a great noise at this place by reason of the Pallisado their Centinels never heard us though the Tower was no more than four paces distant from the Wall of the Town This being done we return'd and went to give Monsieur de Guise an account of what we had seen who would not give credit to our discovery but told me he was certain there was no Pallisado and that people who came lately from thence had assur'd him to the contrary and that therefore the night following we must discover it better I was vext to the blood at this answer but said no more to him but only this that I conceiv'd the testimony of those Captains was sufficient but seeing he was not satisfied with it let some body in the name of God discover it better to which he made-answer that he did not mean I should go my self neither said I do I intend it The Mareschal knew very well that I was angry and said to the Sieur Adrian Baillon and to Count Th●ophile I know Montluc is angry by his answer to the Duke of Guise and you shall see if he do not go this night to discover after a terrible manner for I know the complexion of the man This night Monsieur de Guise detein'd the Mareschal with him in his Quarters and so soon as it was night I took four hundred Pikes Corslets all and four hundred Harquebuzeers and went to lay the Corslets upon their bellies upon the ground within a hundred paces of the Gate of the City and I with the four hundred Harquebuzeers marched directly to the Pallisad● The Captains themselves who had discover'd before vvere as angry at the answer Monsieur de Guise had given them as I and themselves first passed the Pallisado Now I believe the Enemy had in the morning perceiv'd that people had past by the end of the Pallisado for we there found a Court of Guard of twenty or five and twenty men of which the most part were kill'd and the rest escap'd into the Rampire where our people pursued and entred after them but the door of the Ravelin that went into the Town was so narrow that one man only could pass at a time which was the reason that our men stopt short for the Enemy defended the door Nevertheless they made shift to dismount and tumble a Bastard from the Ravelin on our side down to the ground and being that by the Tower our Artillery from the other side of the water had beaten down part of the Wall so that it was pretty low we with some Pikes that came along with us came to dispute it with them where the fight continued for above a long hour Monsieur de Guise who saw all from the other side of the River was stark mad at what he saw but the Mar●s●hal who was with him laught with Sieur Adrian and the Count de Theophile saying did I not tell you he would make one I had made the Soldiers to carry five or six hatchets along with them with which during the time of the fight I caused all the Pallisado to be cut and pulled up so that we needed no more to wade the water at our return Captain St. Estephe was there slain with the Ensign of Cipierre and another Ensign but they had not their Colours with them for I had brought none together with ten or twelve Soldiers kill'd and wounded Captain Sarlabous is yet living and several others who can witness that had we taken with us five or six Ladders seven or eight foot high only we had entred the place for they kept very ill guard on that side and in that place relying upon the Guard they had left without so that it was a long time before they came to the defence of this Post whilst in the mean time five or six of our Soldiers helping one another mounted upon the Wall so that had we had Ladders to reach from the top of the breach in the Wall up to the Terrass I

worth and valour is justly grounded Our French Foot will have an eye to your behaviour they are emulous of your reputation and have an ambition to excell you therefore maintain your antient renown or you dishonor the Spanish Nation for ever The King your Master hearing how bravely you have behav'd your selves will take it better at your hands than if you had fought in his own particular concern for this is Gods quarrel against the Lutherans who will cut you into a thousand pieces if you fall into their hands a consideration that if it have not alone the power to encourage you to go bravely and cheerfully to the fight it is not to be expected that any thing in the world can excite your courages or enflame your hearts I fancy that were I fighting in Spain my arm would be as strong again and you are fellow Soldiers in France that rejoices at your coming expects great advantages by your assistance and our being thus far reconciled begets in us a hope that these two great Kingdoms will one day be united to justle the great Turk out of his Dominions Go to then fellow Soldiers betake your selves to your arms and were it not that I will not deprive Don Lewis of his due honor I would put my self in the head of your Battalion with a Pike in my hand to see how you will lay about you but I shall not be very far off that I may see how well you can imitate the actions of your fathers of which I my self have been an eye witness both in Italy and in Piedmont at Roussillion and Fontarabie Methinks I long for to Morrows light that we may send an account to both our Kings of the brave service you have perform'd against an Enemy a hundred times worse than the Moors of Barbary having broken down the Crosses and Altars and polluted the Churches of God built by our pions Ancestors Sacriledges of which I assure my self you will take an honourable and severe revenge No quieren vouestras Mercedes nos otros que se●mos Hermanos y Compagneros por todas las fouereas nouestras per hoara de Dios y Protection del Rey Christianissimo Hermano de l' Rey Catholico which when I had said Don Lewis making answer for them all said to me these vvords Crea vouestra merced que nos avemos bien ape●ear del primero asta e● postero y quanto averemo unu gotta di Sungre nellos cuerpos Nos tarda il T●empo que non veniamos a las manos coutra los Hereges As Don Lewis had made an end of speaking I desired them all as a token of their chearfulness to hold up their hands which they did after they had first kiss'd the ground after which I return'd to the Gascons bidding Captain Charry remount to horse and go bring all the Harquebuzeers on horseback on my left hand that they might be ready to alight when I should command them which he accordingly did I then made a speech to the Gascons wherein I told them that there had been a long dispute betwixt the Spaniards and the Gascons and that they were now to end the Controversie that above fifty years agoe had been begun which was that the Spaniards pretended to be stouter than the Gascons and the Gascons on the contrary to be braver than they and that since God had done us the grace to bring us upon this occasion to fight a Battel under the same Standard the difference was to be determinately decided and the honor made clearly our own I am a Gascon said I but I will henceforth renounce my Country and never own my self to be a Gascon more if this day you do not by bravely fighting win the Prize and gain the process of your adversaries and you shall see I will be a good Advocate in this cause They are Swash-bucklers and think no people under the Sun so brave as they therefore fellow Soldiers let them see what you can do where they give one blow give you four You have more reason to fight than they for you fight for your Prince for your Altars your Fires your Wives and Children and if you be overcome besides the shame that attends your defeat your Country is lost for ever and which is worse your Religion I assure my self I shall not be put to the trouble of thrusting my Sword into the reins of such as shall shew their backs to the Enemy and that you will every one do your devoir These people are no other than a Crew of baffel'd Rascals gather'd seditiously together people in●r'd to be beaten and that already fancie the Hangman at their heels so highly do their own consciences accuse them It is not so with you who fight for the honor of God the service of your Prince and the conservation of your Country therefore fight like men and hold up your hands in token of your chearfulness and consent which they all did and began to cry with one voice Let us go and we will never stop till we come to grapple with them with the Sword and thereupon kiss'd the earth The Spaniards then drew up to our men and I commanded both the one and the other to move but a foot pace only that they might not put themselves out of breath which order being given I gallopt up to the Gens-d'arms entreating them to move gently forward and saying to them It is not to you Gentlemen that fine speehes are necessary to enflame your breasts I know you stand in no need of such encouragements there is not a Gentry in France equal to ours in Gascony to um then Gentlemen to um and you shall see how I will second you Monsieur de Burie then mounted upon a great horse having put on his arms behind the Art●llery where I told him that if he would please to march at the head of the Foot with the Artillery the three Companies of Gens-d'armes should flank him and he should make the main Battail which he instantly consen●ed to and in truth I never saw him so brisk nor more full of noble resolution to fight than at that time Neither did he contradict me in any thing whatever as if I had been in his place and I was told that he should say this man is fortunate let him do what he will So soon as the whole Army began to move in this order I gallopt away Monsieur de Monferran and the Sieur de Cajelles who is of the Family of Mongairel and now Knight of the Order along with me and staid not till I came within thirty or fourty paces of five or six horse who were under a Tree The Sieur de Puch de Pardaillan has since told me that these were Monsieur de Duras de Bordet and himself Captain Peyralongue and another whose name I do not remember The said Captain Peyralongue was their Camp-master of Foot and in the Charge that Captain Borde● had made they had