The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the english hostages for the performance of the treaty, ?and at the end of eight days, when the place was cleared, they were set at liberty. CHAP. XX. THE SIEGE OF CAEN.?THE KING OF FRANCE, ATTENDED BY THE KING OF SICILY AND HIS SON, THE DUKE OF CALABRIA, APPEAR BEFORE IT WITH A LARGE ARMY. ?THE ENGLISH,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the english hostages for the performance of the treaty, ?and at the end of eight days, when the place was cleared, they were set at liberty. CHAP. XX. THE SIEGE OF CAEN.?THE KING OF FRANCE, ATTENDED BY THE KING OF SICILY AND HIS SON, THE DUKE OF CALABRIA, APPEAR BEFORE IT WITH A LARGE ARMY. ?THE ENGLISH, AFTER SUSTAINING MUCH DAMAGE FROM THE BATTERIES, SURRENDER THE TOWN AND CASTLE OF CAEN. On the 5th day of June, the constable and his division dislodged from Ceaux, and fixed his quarters in the abbey of St Stephen, in the suburbs of Caen, and near to the walls., On the same day, the count de Clermont, the count de Castres, and many other lords, knights and esquires, marched their men to the quarters of the constable: they amounted to twelve hundred spears, four thousand five hundred archers, gui- sarmes-f-, and armour-bearers, and two hundred franc archers on foot. ....., '; The count de Dunois posted himself in the suburbs of Vaucelles, on the side toward Paris with a large company of nobles men at arms and archers, to the amount of eight hundred lances, and two thousand archers, guisarmes, and armour-bearers on horseback, and two thousand franc archers on foot, so that the city was completely blockaded on its two sides. They instantly threw a bridge of communication between the two divisions over the river Orne, by which, the fourth day after, the counts of Nevers and of Eu passed a considerable body of men at arms and archers, and quartered them in the suburbs of Caen, toward the sea, at the abbey of la Trinitc, a convent of women. They weue scarcely arrived befere they attacked an ontwork of the town, which was valiantly defended, and many gallant deeds were performed on each side, but it was at length won by Guisarmes, ?a kind of (offensive) long-handled and.