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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

notice of the three Gentlemen I had sent before and would so secure the Gates that I should not be able to enter and that it was better for us to venture our lives in the Town than to keep out and suffer the Town to be lost We then mounted to horse being no more than six Light-horse and we might be in all the Servants compriz'd thirty horse I commanded fourteen Harquebuzeers to follow after me under the conduct of a Priest called Malaubaere commanding them to follow at a good shog trot and so we marcht with these mighty Forces When we came near unto Terraube a little league from Lectoure there came a man on horseback dispatcht away by the Consul and Captain Mauriez by whom they sent me word that they had possessed themselves of the Gates and that the City was all in arms desiring to know by which Gate I would enter I told him by the Gate of the Castle whereupon he return'd upon the spur as he came By good fortune the●e hapned to be in the Town the Sieur de Lussan and the Captain his Brother who came out to meet me knowing nothing of all this business they being come thither by appointment of Process and so we entred into the Town So soon as we were come into Monsieur de Poisegurs house I entreated the Sieur de Lussan to go bid Monsieur de Fonterailles come and speak with me for I had something to say to him that concerned his Majesties service He sent me word back that he would not come and that he was in the Castle in the behalf of the Queen of Navarre Lady and Mistress of the said Castle and Town Whereupon I sent him word again that if he did not come I would assault the said Castle and at the ringing of the Tocquesaint call in all the neighbouring Towns to my assistance which I think sta●tled him for he came At his coming I told him that I would have the Castle to put people into it who were of the Religion of the King and a Gentleman to command them till I should see to what the beginning of this Commotian tended to which he made answer that he was a faithful Servant of the Kings and that he would rather die than do any thing contrary to his Majesties pleasure To which I replied again that I did believe him to be so but that notwithstanding I would in the mean time s●cure the Castle and that I had a greater confidence in my self than in him and after some disputes Monsieur de Sainctorens put in and said something to which the other replied briskly upon him but he did not go without his answer and had he not suddenly resolv'd I was about to have taken him prisoner Monsieur de Lussan then took him aside remonstrating to him that he was highly too blame not to obey and that it was as much as his life was worth for I would die there but I would have it and that he himself knew well enough what a kind a man I was Monsieur de Fonterailles thereupon came to me and told me that he was ready to deliver up the Castle into my hands but that he earnestly begg●d of me that I would permit him to reenter into it and sleep there that night that he might pack up all the goods he had there ready to go away in the morning I desir'd him on the contrary that he would not of●er to stir out of the Town and that I would deliver the Guard of the Castle to such Catholick Gentlemen as he should name He therefore nam'd several but I would like of none of them when seeing I would not put in those he desir'd he nam'd Monsieur de Cassaigne a neighbour to the Town who since has been Lieutenant to Monsieur d' Arnes Company with whom I was content and sent presently for him However I plaid the Novice in one thing for I let the said Sieur de Fonterailles go in again upon his word into the Castle which was not discreetly done for a man should alwayes in such cases take all things at the worst In the mean time Monsieur de Verduzan arriv'd with four or five Gentlemen in Company with him and presently after Monsieur de Maignas and every hour some or other came in to us After Supper we went out of the Castle where I fell to view and consider the Postern of the false Bray and began to remonstrate to those friends who were with me that in case the Seneschal should have made an appointment for those of his Party to come that night to the Portal the Guards and Centinels of the Town could not possibly hinder him from letting in whom he pleased wherefore I was resolv'd to lodge Theanville Commissary of the Artillery and the Priest with the fourteen Harquebuzeers in the false Bray betwixt the two Portals and it was well for me I did so for otherwise they had trapp'd us and cut all our throats that night See how a man may fall into danger thorough his own fault for I thought my self wonderful wi●e and circumspect and yet notwithstanding I put a place of so great importance together with the whole Country in danger to be lost I was not yet satisfied with this Guard but I moreover order'd all the Gentlemen and their Servants to lie down in their Cloaths and sent a command to all those of the Town to do the same In the morning by Sun-rise the said Seneschal came to me again to entreat me to leave him the Castle and that he would give me security with a great many other fine good morrows but I told him he did but lose time in such proposals for I was resolv'd to put men into it so that seeing no other remedy he receiv'd the Sieur de la Cassaigne with twenty Soldiers into the place and then came to take his leave of me I did what I could to perswade him to stay in the Town but he made answer that he would not trust himself with the Inhabitants beginning to tell me that I put a very great affront upon him in not confiding in his Loyalty that he was a man of a race too remarkable for th●ir services and fidelity so the Crown of France to be suspested and that his Ancestors had sav'd the Kingdom To which I made answer that his Grandfather of whom he intended to speak did never save the Kingdom and that in his time reigned Lewis the twelfth in whose Reign the Kingdom had never been in any such danger and that if it was of the time that King Charles retir'd to Bourges that he intended to speak that honor was to be attributed to Potton and la Hire of whose valour all the Chronicles are full For la Hire and Potton two Gascon Gentlemen were indeed cause of the recovery of the Kingdom of France yet would I not deny but that his Grand father was a great and valiant Captain who

Nobility his Arms and Mareschalsy and to condemn him to the loss of his head Nevertheless as they were proceeding to execution King Henry calling to mind that he had made him Knight of the Order sent him his pardon so that five or six moneths after what of old age and what of grief he died a natural death and who would have liv'd after such an injury and disgrace The Judicature of France is not without Cortels for there are enow who should the King put into their hands the honestest man of his Kingdom would find out enough against him as Cortel boasted who said that deliver up to him the most upright Li●utenant in the Kingdom of France provided he had been but a year or two in that employment and he doubted not but to find matter enough to put him to death This poor Lord had perform'd a Soldier-like action if ever man did at the Fort of Montrean when the English ●allied out of Bullen to give him Battel he had with him the Count Rhin●graves Regiment and as I think the Count himself was there that of the French commanded by Monsieur de Tais and seven Ensigns of Italians So soon as the Enemy charg'd our Horse they were immediately put to rout and fled when the said Sieur seeing the disorder of the Cavalry he ran to the Battaillon of Foot and said Oh my friends it was not with the Horse that I expected to win the Battel but it is with you and thereupon alighted where taking a Pike from one of the Soldiers to whom he deliver'd his Horse and causing his Spurs to be pull'd off he began his retreat towards Andelot The Enemy after they had a great way pu●sued the Cavalry return'd upon him who was four hours or more upon his retreat having the Enemies horse sometimes in his Front and sometimes in his Flancks and their Foot continually in his Rear without their ever daring to break into him and I was told by the Captains who were present in the Action that he never advanc'd fifty paces without facing about upon the Enemy by which th●s may be call'd one of the bravest re●reats that has been made these hundred years I should be glad any one could name me such another having upon him the whole power both of Foot and Horse and his own Cavalry all run off the Field Behold what this poor Lord did for a parting blow at above threescore and ten years of age and yet he was used after this manner Let any one ask the Cardinal of Lorrain who it was that did him this courtesie for at the Assembly of the Knights of the Order before King Francis the second he reproach'd him with this busines and they grew into very high words upon it for my part I am too little a Companion to name it though I was present there and also there were some Ladies who had a hand in the business A year after I saw another pranck plaid Monsieur de Tais wherein he was accused to have spoken unhandsomely of a Court Lady 't is a misfortune France has ever had that they meddle too much in all affairs and have too great credit and interest for upon this the command of the Ar●illery was taken from him and he never after return'd into favour The King of Navarre entreated the King not to take it ill if he made use of him in the taking of H●din which his Majesty gave him leave to do and he was kill'd in the Trenches of the said Hedin doing service for him to whom his service was not acceptable which is a g●eat heart-breaking and the greatest of all vexations to die for a Prince that has no regard for a mans service wherein our condition is of all others most miserable notwithstanding I believe the King would in the end have made use of him again for in truth he was a man of service and I moreover believe that his Majesty was sorry he had banisht him the Court but very often those of both Sexes who govern Princes make them do things against their own natures and inclinations and afterwards they are sorry for it but it is too late to repent when their Traverses have brought upon a Prince such an inconvenience as is irreparable and those who would afterwards seem to excuse them endeavour to make the matter worse by contriving new accusations and laying other aspersions upon them I shall not mention the Constables business which drave him also from Court and all as it was said about women nor that of the late Monsieur de Guise we have seen them sometimes out and sometimes in The King would do well to stop the mouths of such Ladies as tattle in his Court for thence proceed all the reports and slanders a prating Gossip was cause of the death of Monsieur de la Chastaigneray who would he have taken my advice and that of five or six more of his friends he had done his business with Monsieur dr Iarnac after another manner for he fought against his conscience and lost both his honor and his life The King ought therefore to command them to meddle with their own affairs I except those that are to be excepted for their tittle tattle has done a great deal of mischief and after as I said it is too late These are the good offices that in my time I have seen done several great persons and also such poor Gentlemen as my self all which proceed from the jealousie and envy they bear to one another who are near unto the persons of Princes In the time that I have been at Court I have seen great dissimulations and several carry it very fair to one another in shew who would have eaten one another if they could and yet outwardly who so great as they embracing and caressing one another as if they had been the greatest friends in the world I was never skill'd in that Trade for every one might read my heart in my face By this one may judg that the misfortune into which this Kingdom is fallen is not come upon it through any default of courage or wisdom in our Kings nor for want of valiant Captains and Soldiers for never Kings of France had so many both of Horse and Foot as Francis Henry and Charles who had they been employed in forreign Conquests would have carried the War far enough from our own doors and it was a great misfortune both to them and the whole Kingdome that they were not so employed and yet can we not lay the blame thereof either to the Church or the third Estate for all that have by the Kings been demanded of them have been freely granted Every Child then may judg where the fault lay and from whence sprung the Civil Wars I mean from the great ones for they are not wont to make themselves parties for the word of God If the Queen a●d the Admiral were together in a Cabine and the

Extraction than the Sons of poor labouring men who have liv'd and died in a reputation as great and high as they had been the Sons of Lords through their own virtue and the esteem the Kings and their Lieutenants had of them When my Son Marc Anthony was carried dead to Rome the Pope and all the Cardinals the Senate and all the People of Rome payd as much honor to his Hearse as if he had been a Prince of the blood And what was the cause of all this but only his own Valour my Reputation and my King who had made me what I was So that the name of Marc Anthony is again to be found in the Roman Annals When I first entred into Arms out of my Page-ship in the House of Lorrain there was no other discourse but of the great Gonsalvo call'd the great Captain How great an honor was it to him which also will last for ever to be crown'd with so many Victories I have heard it told that King Lewis and King Ferdinand being together I know not at what place but it was somewhere where they had appointed an Interview these two great Princes being sat at Table together our King entreated the King of Spain to give leave that Gonsalvo might dine with them which he accordingly did whilst men of far greater quality than he stood waiting by So considerable had the King his Masters favour and his own valour made him This was the honor he receiv'd from the King of France who in recompence for his having depriv'd him of the Kingdom of Naples put a weighty Chain of Gold about his neck I have heard Monsieur de Lautrec say that he never took so much delight in looking upon any man as upon that same O how fair an Exemple is this for those who intend to advance themselves by Arms When I went the second time into Italy as I passed through the Streets of Rome every one ran to the windows to see him that had defended Sienna which was a greater satisfaction to me than all the Riches of the Earth I could produce several Exemples of French men of very mean Extraction who have by Arms arriv'd at very great Preferments but out of respect to their Posteritie I shall forbear but it was the bounty of their Kings that so advanc'd them for the recompence of their brave services It is then just that we confess we could be nothing without their bountie and favour if we serve them 't is out of obedience to the Commandment of God and we ought not to try to obtein rewards by importunities and reproaches and if any one be ill rewarded the fault is not in our Kings but in them who are about them that do not acquaint them who have serv'd well or ill for there are many of both sorts to the end that his Majesties largess should be rightly placed And there is nothing that goes so much to the heart of a brave and loyal Subject as to see the King heap honors and rewards upon such as have serv'd him ill I am sure it is that that has vext me more than any disappointment of my own I have often heard some men say the King or the Queen have done this and that for such a one why should they not do as much for me The King has pardoned such a one such an offence why does he not also pardon me I know also that their Majesties have said They will no more commit such over-sights we must wink at this one fault but it was the next day to begin the same again However a man ought never to stomack any thing from his Prince The honor of such men lies in a very contemptible place since they more value a reward or a benefit than their own reputation or renown and are so ready to take snuff if they fail of their expectation And moreover as I have already said they are commonly men that have never strook three strokes with sword and yet will vapour what dangers they have passed and what hardships they have endur'd If a man should strip them naked one might see many a proper fellow that has not so much as one fear in all his body Such men if they have born arms any while are very fortunate and at the day of Judgment if they go into Paradise will carry all their blood along with them without having lost one dram of their own or having shed one drop of any others here upon earth Others I have heard and of all sorts of men even to the meanest complain that they have serv'd the King four five or six years and notwithstanding have not been able to get above three or four thousand Livers yearly Rent poor men they are sore hurt I speak not of the Soldiers only but of all other conditions of men his Majestie makes use of I have heard my Father who was an old man and others older than he report that it was a common saying at Court and throughout the whole Kingdom in the Reign of Lewis the Twelfth Chastillon Bourdillon Galliot Bonneval Governent le sang Royal. and yet I dare be bold to say that all these four Lords who govern'd two Kings put them all together never got ten thousand Livers yearly Revenue I have formerly said as much to the Mareschal de Bourdillon who thereupon return'd me answer that his Predecessor was so far from getting 3000 Livers a year that he sold 1500 and left his Family very necessitous Should any one ask the Admiral to shew what his Predecessor who govern'd all got by his favour I durst lay a good wager he could not produce 2000 Livers yearly Revenue As for Galliot he liv'd a great while after the others and he peradventure might in that long time take together three or four thousand Livers a year For what concerns Bonneval Monsieur de Bonneval that now is and Monsieur de Biron are his Heirs and I believe they can boast of no great Estates O happy Kings that had such Servants 'T is easie to discern that these men serv'd their Masters out of the love and affection they bore to their persons and the Crown and not upon the account of reward and I have heard that they evermore rather begg'd for the King 's own Domestick Servants than for themselves They are gone down to their Graves with honor and their Successors are not nevertheless in want Since I have spoken of others I will now say something of my felf Some perhaps after I am dead will talk of me as I talk of others I confess that I am very much oblig'd to the Kings I have serv'd especially to Henry my good Master as I have often said before and I had now been no more than a private Gentleman had it not been for their bounty and the opportunities they gave me to acquire that reputation I have in the world which I value above all the treasure the Earth contains having

Schismatick a Heretick and a Rebel A conspiracy that cannot be baptiz'd by the name of a necessary succour but an unjust wicked and detestable confederacy complotted betwixt them two to the end that they might divide betwixt them a Christian and a Chatholick Kingdom which in all times when any occasion has presented it self for the propagation of our Faith has ever shew'd it self prodigal both of its Blood and Treasure But the whole world most Serene Princes were too little to satisfie his appetite of Rule so precipitously is he hurried on by his Ambition and Revenge Would he not have been sensible of the shameful affront put upon him by the English King in the person of his Aunt had not the design to subjugate all Christendom transported him to forget that outrage How often to frustrate the Turkish attempts and to prevent the manifest ruine of Hungary and Germany have means been tryed and endeavours used to procure a peace and union amongst those Princes and still in vain Whereas now all particular animosities and private interests the respect to Religion the common desire of liberty the obligation of so many benefits anciently received from our Forefathers and of late from us laid aside and forgot they are to our great prejudice confederated and united like Herod and Pilate who from mortal Enemies that they were became friends and Associates only in order to the persecution of Iesus Christ. Shall then this Emperor most Serene Prince go about to possess himself of the Kingdom of France and to offend this King who after so many injuries receiv'd so amicably and so freely consented to the ten years Truce shall the Emperor go about to rui●e this Prince who after having been so many times undeservedly invaded in his own Kingdom and as it were coming from the Obsequies of that most Illustrious and Serene Dauphin his Son so basely by the Emperors corruptions poysoned never●heless with the rest of his Children and Princes of the Blood at the peril of his life went even into the Emperors own Gally by that security to manifest to him how much the peace so necessary to all Christendom was by his Majesty coveted and desired Shall the Emperor go about to ruine burn and put to spoil this Kingdom in his passage thorough which he was so welcom'd treated honored and caressed as if he had been an Angel descended from Heaven Shall ●e attempt by all undue and all violent ways to make himself Sovereign of this Kingdom wherein for fifty days together by the courtesie and bounty of the King my Lord and Master he saw himself more highly honoured and respected then their own natural Prince with a power to command all things more absolute than if he had been in his own Palace Shall the Almans go about to make Hinds and Slaves of those who for the conservation of the German liberty have so liberally exposed themselves at the vast expence and loss of their substance and the effusion of their own blood Shall the Germans and the English go about to ruine the Religion that we with our valiant Armies and by the Doctrine of an infinite number of men eminent for piety and learning have esserted and publish'd to all the world Shall the Spaniards a people whom so often and by di●t of Arms we have reduced to the Christian Faith go about in revenge to compel us to forsake that Religion which so long and with so great honor to the name of Christ we have maintained and upheld If it must be so that contrary to all duty and right we must be abandoned by the rest of the Christian world which God avert we who are the Subjects of the King my Lord and Master may with great reason and justice cry unto God for vengeance against them all for so foul an ingratitude These are returns by no means suitable to the merits of our Forefathers for having by the divine assistance gain'd so many signal victories for Christendom under the conduct of Charles Martel in those times when they fought with and cut pieces fifty thousand Saracens that were come into Spain These are by no means fit rewards for the desert of our Ancestors who by the favour of the Almighty acquir'd great advantages for Christendom at the time when by their Forces under the conduct of Charlemain the Infidels and Saracens were driven both out of Spain and a great part of Asia These are by no means acknowledgments proportionable to the reputation our people by the Grace of God acquir'd in the time of Urban the second who without any difficulty or the least contradiction dispased our King his Princes Nobility Gentry and generally the whole body of the Kingdom against the adversaries of our Faith insomuch that altogether and through our assistance they coquer'd the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Holy Land These are by no means fit recompences for the desert of so many expeditions against the enemies of our Faith fortunately undertaken by our Progenitors under the Reigns of Philip and Charles of Valois And when his Holiness shall see so many Nations confederated with a mischievous intent to ruine the rest of Christendom and resolved to oppress this Kingdom which of all other has best merited of the Christian Common-weal I cannot doubt but that he will lend us such succours and assistance as he shall judge necessary ●o our protection and defence And should his Holiness do otherwise he would do very much against himself and contrary to the duty of an Italian a Christian and a Prelate Of an Italian forasmuch as our Holy father does very well understand that the servitude and calamity of Italy can proceed from no other accident than from the ruine and desolation of the Kingdom of France Of a Christian forasmuch as the name of Christ having in all Ages been defended and propagated by this Kingdom and it being at this time invaded by the means and ambition of the Emperor and so many Nations strangers to our Religion it cannot in this exigency be deserted by any but such as are no very good friends to the Christian Faith Of a Prelate for asmuch as it were contrary to the duty of his Holiness being as he is thoroughly informed and very well in his own knowledg assured that the Emperor obstinate in his own will and resolute to subjugate both the French Italians and all other Christians would never hearken to any overture of accommodation that has by his Holiness been propounded to him Whereas on the contrary the King my Master equally desirous of his own and the publick quiet has often offered to submit all his interests and differences to the judgment of our Holy Father To discharge then the office of a true Prelate and a true Iudg may he not take arms against him who has not the confidence to deny but that he is the sole perturbator of the publick peace and the universal good Which though his Holiness should forbear to do

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