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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

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to depart the places till they had fought with the said Princes army and said also that they had expresse commaundement so to doe or at the least to raise them from that place for thereon depended the honor of both the armies But how soone this hot corage was cooled is easie to be iudged by their sodain retiring a league backe from the place which they had taken getting a brooke betwéene them and the said Princes armie Who being not content wyth the vauntage that they wanne of their sayd enimies in raising them from the place that they sayd they chose to fight on folowed them to the second place and althoughe the sayd enimies had a great vauntage by reason of the brooke which made them hard to be come by yet what with cannon shot and continual skirmishes that they gaue them they constrained them againe to leane that seconde place to retire yea the kings brother himself towards Chinon to passe the riuer of Vienna leauing all their sicke behinde them and much of their cariage munitions The Princes séeing this appointed certaine troupes of horsemen and foote men to follow them which set vpon one place of the enimies where there were seuen Ensignes whereof foure were put to flight and the other thrée wholly discomfited and theyr ensignes were burned in a house where some of the souldiours had withdrawne them selues Afterwarde the said Princes séeyng all meanes of fighting to be taken away by reason of a great and strong riuer betwene them determined to marche with their army towardes Towars and Montreuilbellay as well to refreshe them and for commoditie of vitayles whereof they had great néede for fiue or sixe dayes as to coast the army of the enemies which being thus retired diminisheth and breaketh away dayly by litle and litle so that we heare from diuers places that they talke of passing ouer the riuer of Loyre agayne to place part of their Armie in all the townes that lye on the sayd riuer and to border it with warriours at all the brydges gates passages and villages and the other part to send towardes the campe that the King leuyeth against the Prince of Orenge and the Duke of Swebrug Which causeth the sayd Princes nowe to determine that as soone as they haue receiued those ten thousand footemen and twelue hundreth horsemē that the foure Vicountes of Bourniquel Poulin Monclay and Calmont bring vnto them to strenghten them and which are almost arriued at their campe to marche forewarde to the siege of some one of those townes on the sayde riuer that they may with all expedition ioyne with the prince of Orange the duke of Swebrug From whom they haue receiued newes by certayne Gentlemen that they haue sent vnto thē that they are not lesse than fiue and twentie or thirtie thousande horsemen and thrée score thousande footemen when they be al mette In the meane whyle the sayde Lord Princes haue 35. enseignes of footmen and twelue guydons whiche they haue wonne of the enemies besides the seuen enseignes of companies of footemen that were discomfited at the departing from before Loudun which wer burnt in the lodgyng to haue the Souldiers that were within On the other side the sayde foure Vicountes lost no time where they were but toke and put to fire and sworde the towne of Gaillac in whiche diuers cruelties with maruellous stoutnesse had bene committed against those of the Religion and also the lowe towne of Carcassonne was taken by them with twelue or fiftene other townes Monsieur of Grammont in the countrey of Basque hath also discōfited the seigneur of Luye which had raised foure thousand mē against those of the Religion won certayne péeces of artillerie from him The Cardinal of Lorayne perceyuyng that al things wēt not on his side as he hoped and purposed caused the Quene to send out Mōs Portall the generall receiuer to make some motion of peace to the sayd Princes to whom the lyke aunswere was made that was made to the maister of requestes Malassise that was also sent by the Quene to the lyke ende whiche is this that as long as the Cardinall of Lorayne ruled and vsed suche tiranny ouer Fraunce and namely the kinges counsel out of whiche they haue driuen away my Lorde the Chancelour and the principall Officers of the crowne they woulde accept no letters nor messages made vnder the name of his maiestie but onely as commyng from the forge and inuention of the sayde Cardinall and that they had vsed so muche vnfaithfulnesse in the treaty of peaces heretofore that those of the Religion are driuen to this extremitie to beleue that there is none other safetie for them but by the meane of the sworde Since that tyme the companye of Monsieur Dinoy tooke the last of Decembre in the suburbes of Chynon four score Switsers with the Prouost of the Kings Brothers garde whiche was on the far syde the water from whence the armye fled in great hast This is the happy successe that it hath pleased God hitherto to giue to the affaires of the sayd Princes and the reward and recōpence that the enemies haue receyued for their treason and vnfaithfulnesse which is more then sufficiently verified by the contentes of the Popes Bull whiche they sewed for in the Month of Iune Iuly last dispatched at Rome the last of August folowing which sayd sute shal alwayes euidētly cōuict them that they neuer intended but to breake the faith and publique safetye both promised and sworne further to reuoke the Edict whiche came forth anon after and in substance hath relation to the layd Bull. Wherby they reuoke all the Edictes whiche haue béen heretofore made in the fauour of those of the Religion as being made in the assemblies of men hyred or brybed therto thoughe it be well knowen that it was done in the solemnest assemblye that euer was made in this realme namely the Edict of Ianuarie where all the Princes and Lordes of the Councell of both Religions with the greatest and most notable personages of all the highe Courts of this Realme were present and further beinge made at the Request of the Estates And for sufficient proofe to all those of the Religion that they neuer ment but to abolish bring to naught the said Religion they declare in expresse wordes by the same Edict that they neuer mynded or intēded any other thing notwithstanding any cōmandements Lettres patents and declarations that haue béen giuen forth or otherwise and notwithstanding the great assurance of words that his Maiestie hath giuen as wel to his subiects as to straunge Princes ¶ Imprinted at London by Henrie Bynneman dwelling in Knight Rider streate at the signe of the Marmayde for Lucas Haryson 1569.