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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09826	The second part of the booke of battailes, fought in our age taken out of the best authors and writers in sundrie languages. Published for the profit of those that practise armes, and for the pleasure of such as loue to be harmlesse hearers of bloudie broiles.; All the famous battels that have bene fought in our age throughout the worlde, as well by sea as lande. Part 2.	Polemon, John.	1587 (1587)	STC 20090; ESTC S114774	134,054	198

better to die with honour couered and wrapped in his Ensigne than to drinke of such shame So before these braue chiefe died hée patientlie sawe the purple of his bloud die the white Taffetas of his Ensigne Crimson I doe remember me of the ensigne Colonell of Caesar that bare the Eagle Imperiall in the ciuile warres This Romane Captaine knowing what shame it is to leaue the Ensigne to bée wonne by the enimie when he sawe that he was neere to his end did so much with his companions that it was saued and brought vnto the handes of his Generall I must néedes also recite the notable example of the Counte de Charny that bare the Banner of France in that so famous battaile of Malpertuis néere Poitiers which king Iohn lost against Edward the Prince of Wales and the English men This gentle Frenchman loued better to die in the field with the soueraigne Banner of France in his hande stroken thorough with a thousand blowes than to liue with the reproch to haue fled from the Englishmen as farre as Poitiers as two partes of the armie did the twelfth of September Anno. 1356. But the raunsome of so many prisoners was not intollerable but moderated for the pittie and compassion that they had of so many braue warriours who yet layd all the falt of their foule daie on the conduct of the armie But that I maye omit nothing of my deuoire Puygaillard had great reasons for the iustifications of his dooings First the ennie that he bare him at the charge saying that hée was of too small an house to commaund so many seigniours was the cause that hée was forsaken by not onelie two partes of the men of armes that were appointed him but also of many Ensignes of footemen and namelie of all the Captaines in chiefe of those bandes that remained I will not speake of the Romanes many of whose armies were ouerthrowen by the hatred borne to their Generalls no more then I wil of the Counte de Galeaz despighted because that his brother Galeas Saint Seuerin was preferred before him in the estate of Generall of the armie against the French I wil also passe ouer in silence how néedfull it is that a Generall be loued of those that follow him and will not recount vnto you how Persy by reason of the authoritie that he had with the souldiers made Monpensier léese many faire enterprises at the conquest of the kingdome of Naples Some men onelie wished héere that the Generall and his souldiers had done as Liuiano and his armie did who hauing trauailed his armie through foule déepe waies and full of mire and foulie soused with continuall raine and tired with marching daie and night yet when they should haue rested themselues and béeing at the place appointed therefore he spake vnto them so effectuallie assuring them of the victorie and the greate spoile of Ruiglio that they quite forgot all their long iourneyes passed behauing themselues as they ought got no lesse honour than they did riches by their spoiled enimies But the enuie that namelie the Poiteuins bare Puygaillard ouerthrew the happie course of his faire desseines So ended the battaile the which began in the verie breake of the daie although that the mist of the thicke cloudes woulde not at the beginning thereof suffer the armies to enteruiew one another at ease And it may bée that if the Protestants had discoured so great a masse of men that they had chosen the retraite for the fight through the meanes of such fogges that gaue them the true meane for to surprise and breake the enimie After this battaile the Protestants in those partes wonne Fontenay Marans Brouage and the Isle of Santogne and besieged the Citie of Saintes when a generall peace was proclaimed The battaile at Chieuraine in Henault fought betweene Don Federike sonne to the Duke of Alua and the Lord Ienlis a Frenchman in Anno. 1572. out of Popelliniere THe Comte Lodouick of Nassau hauing fortunatlie surprised the towne of Mouns in Henault by the aide of certaine French force● lead by the L. Ienlis within short time after ●●r back Ienlis himself into France so respects First to aduertise the French king who séemed highlie to fauour these desseines of Lodouicke and the reuolt of the low Countries from the obedience of the Spaniard of the successe of their enterprise What order they had giuen to the estate of the cause of the meanes that they had to aduaunce their fortune farther of the stirres and reuolts in Holand and Zeland of the fauour that they had receiued out of England Scotland and Germanie and aboue all of the great leauie that the Prince of Orenge made in Germanie and of the hope of their spéedie ariuall that it would please his maiestie to pursue so braue a beginning or at the least to suffer men to bée leauied in France to bée sent into Flanders to ioyne with the Prince and the Almanes against the Duke that prepared an armie to take the field But if the king refused so to doe then to solicite the Princes of Bearn and Condey and the Admirall for to send as many souldiers as they could Ienlis promised him to do what was possible did for his owne perticular assure him that he would emploie all the meanes he could to leauie forces and woulde leade them himselfe into the place appointed Hée went to the Court and aduertised the king and his Counsell of all that I rehearsed before The which did diuerslie mooue their mindes according to the diuersitie of their fauours and factions Afterward hauing receiued a good answere of the king and a promission to leauie men assurance of the Admirall that hée had alredy sent forth his commissions into all parts of France for to leuie companies both of footmen and horsmen had appointed them to méete all together within one daies iourney of Paris where by that time he hoped to haue his owne companie of men of armes to conduct all these forces himselfe into the lowe Countries hée rode into Picardie where vppon the bruite of the conquest of Flanders by the king and of the great and rich booties and spoiles that they looked for there hée had within few dayes leauied thrée or foure thousand footmen 200. men of armes with two companies of harquebuziers on horsebacke The Admirall that had tould Ienlis that he should goe finde out the Prince and serue him for the auantgard willed that Beauieu the Ensigne of his companie of men of armes should take thirtie of his companie and as for the rest he should carie them that he could get without anie regard had of what religion they were The Baron of Renty had one Regiment of nine Ensignes of foote men Ieumelles of eight Berenguaruille of sixe Ianissac was appointed for to conduct the Auantcoureurs The seuenth of Iuly they began to march with a thousand insolences and misorders committed on the paisants and namely by the footemen As soone as Counte

horses vpon whom he was slaine euerie man taking him for his maister Le Conte of Rochfort called Damoisel de Comeri de Beauuois Brichanteau were sore hurt Beauuois died in the end the rest escaped Saint Heran was saued by the meanes of one of the Princes Trumpetters that was his Countriman wherefore he was afterward in great danger to be hanged Pienne whom we told you departed from Orleans fell into the hands of la Loue an honest valiant Gentleman one of his olde friends Who notwithstanding rehearsing vnto him his fault wold haue carried him away prisoner but he could do and speake wel so assuring him at the last that he should soone die in his armes he was so sore hurt that he let him goe and Pienne recouered D'aumalle was hurt had one of his shoulder plate thrust out of ioynt whereof he remained long time hurt Ausson a gentleman of Gascogne so renowned in the parts of Piemont that he had made a Prouerbe of his hardinesse ran away with the first euen to Chartes where he died of an ague that he tooke for griefe sorrow so much can the feare to léese reputation do in a gentlemanly heart But the death of Frances of Cleues duke of Niuernois gouernor of Champagne the heire of the late Frances of Cleues his Father is most remarkable of all things that happened in this Battaile This young Lorde béeing so wonne by Desbordes a Gentleman of Niuernos by whome and by his Secretarie called Vigenaire he let himselfe be so wholie possessed that notwithstanding that he had made profession of the same religion that the Protestants did and had twice promised the prince to come vnto him and follow him yet he liked better to fight that daie for the Catholikes whome he had before followed But it happened vpon the pricke of the first charge that Desbordes himselfe ill handling his Pistoll wounded the Duke in the thigh thrée fingers belowe the hanch and towards the knee so grieuouslie that there could be no meanes found to saue his life And being so hurt hée was carried as well as it could then be vnto a village and from thence to Dreux passing vpō the waie with fiue or six of his men who carried him néere to Dandelot who enquiring what he was and hauing vnderstood that it was the Duke of Neuers wounded to death would not staie him but bidde him thinke vpon his faultes and offences But as for Desbordes hée leauing his maister did for despaire that he had slaine him or for some other cause runne so farre into the thickest of the enimies that hée left his life in the place But the poore Lord dyd sore torment himself but hee was somwhat comforted by Mouie who onelie of all the Chieftaines of the Prince had béene taken in the last charge and hée hauing beene in his youth greatlie loued of the Duke of Neuers serued him for a comforter and as a minister euen vntil he died The principall prisoners besides the Constable was D'Oraison De Rochfort D'Esclauoles certain other Gentlemen On the Princes part were slaine the Baron of Arpaion de Saux de Chandien de Liencourt de Ligneris de la Fredonniere de la Carliere de Rougnac de Mazelles Saint Germier almost all of them of the Cornet of Mouy who was taken prisoner in the last charge hauing ben hurt and afterward tarrying long on foote in the wood adioyning Throckmorton the Ambassador of England Fances Perrucel the princes minister thinking the all had been lost saued thēselues in the néere town of Nogeant wher was the Dewager of Bouillon the daughter of the great Seneshall who had giuen a tast to the Prince the day before And although they were deliuered prisoners to the Catholickes the next daye yet Perrucel was afterward sent to the Prince to whom he serued well for to fortifie him during the time of his imprisonment Also two other Ministers were sore hurt but neither of them dyed they were both gentlemen and bare armes The one being Minister of Mouy his company had scarsely made an ende of prayers going to the charge but that he was stroken to the ground with the blow of a stone that hit him on the reines and from thence after a thousand strange chaunces carried to the next village and afterward to Dreux and finally to Paris and was so well thought of among his enimies without euer being knowen or constrained to doe any thing against his conscience that in the ende he came againe safe and sound to Orleans The other being brother of de la Cour de Chire a learned gentleman of Poitou had receaued an harquebusse shot in his reines which carried a peece of his harnesse into his bodie and the bullet going to the other side euen to the skinne néere to the nauell was so well thought of and holpen the euening after the battaile that the péece of the harnesse being taken out at the entrie of the wound and the bullet at the ende he being shut vp in the castell of Maintenon was readie to take horse againe within thrée wéekes The newes of the battaile was soone brought by the runawaies both to Paris and to Orleans both the one and the other reporting that all was lost on their side The first that gaue the affright to Paris was Guilaureau d' Orleans folowed by many other of whome some were good great ones who all affirmed the ouerthrow of the battaile and the taking of the Constable as true it was in so much that the partakers of the Catholickes stoode in no great sure state when Losses ariued reporting the taking of the Generall of the Protestants and how the Duke of Guyse had recouered all adding also that the Admiral was intierly defaited Vpon the which report there were made at Paris and in all other places to whome these newes were written with all diligence all kinde of ioye as bonefires feasts dauncings Maskes accompanied with Processions ringing of Bells with all ioye and mirth On the other side the most speedie to flie made all things vncertaine at Orleans but not quite desperate which helde all the people in suspense vntill the next day being the xx of the moneth when certaine newes came with them that brought the Constable prisoner to whome they had giuen but a little refreshment on the way after his taking they making him march without once resting all that night and the day folowing vntill he came to Orleans and was put in the Princes lodging He was not rescued as he looked for by 100. light horses eight companies of French men ouer whome Charry commaunded at Chartres within sight of whom they made him passe a pace But for to come againe to the two armies the Duke of Guyse encamped néere Dreux vsing all graciositie towards the Prince who also on his part shewed himselfe nothing astonned and so they passed the night hauing supped simply enough In the morning the Duke who now