. The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet : containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; their expulsion thence; and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries ... Beginning at the year MCCCC., where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII, and continued by others to the year MDXVI . ough St. Omer, returned to Therouenne. In oeneral all those of his party who remained were killed, or made prisoners. The slamw
. The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet : containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; their expulsion thence; and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries ... Beginning at the year MCCCC., where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII, and continued by others to the year MDXVI . ough St. Omer, returned to Therouenne. In oeneral all those of his party who remained were killed, or made prisoners. The slamwere about sixty in number,—and among them were the principal of the French commanders,namely the lord de Querecqs, sir Morlet de Savences, sir Courbet de Rempeupret, sir Martelde Vaulhuon, sir Guy dJuergny, and the lord de Fayel. Among the prisoners were thelordde Hansestez*, governor of Boulogne, the lord de Dampierref, seneschal of Ponthieu,the lord de Rambures J, George la Persoime, the lord de Ginenchy, with several other nobleknights and esquires, to the amount of sixty or eighty. . „ , When the battle was concluded, and the EngUsh had taken possession of all the carts andengrines of war which the enemy had brought thither, and had stript the dead, they returnedto their town of Calais with their prisoners, rejoicing in their victory. On the contrary,count Waleran and those who had escaped with him were overwhelmed with despair, andnot without ~\\ \ Calais, during the Sixteenth Century.—Composed from old French prints. On the third day after this defeat, the English marched out of Calais with the numerouscannons and other artillery they had taken from the French before Mercq, for the town ofArdres. They amounted to about five hundred combatants; and as they had inarched allnight, thinking to surprise it, and that it was weakly garrisoned, they began their attack atthe break of day, by placing ladders against its walls, and setting fire to different parts of it
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