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ſtance from the ſaid towne of Mans, which hee had cauſed to be inuironed the day before by the Lord of Fargeſſe: he ſent to ſummon the ſaid town. Vnto whom the Lord of Boisdauphin (which commaunded in it for the League) made an anſwere, as if hee had been reſolute to burie himſelfe in it, and all thoſe that were with him, rather than to depart out of it, & began to burne a great part of the Suburbes of La Couſture, eſpeciallie that part which was without the retrenchment of the ſaid Suburbes. But the ſaid Lord of Fargeſſe came vpon them with his troupe, and ſaued a great part of the aforenamed Suburbes. Immediately after the Baron Byron, and Chaſtalion arriued with the greateſt part of the French Infanterie, by whome the ſame night was the aforeſaid retrenchment wonne, which was in ſome place twentie foote high, and might eaſelie haue attended the Cannon: and from that time it was ſuppoſed, that they were eaſier to be dealt with, than was looked for. The morrow after the xxviij. of the ſaid moneth of Nouember, his Maieſtie came and lodged in the ſaid Suburbes, which is faire, and in a manner more commodious to lodge in, than the Towne. And the ſame daye hee cauſed all the other Suburbes to be wonne, except the Suburbes of Saint Iohn, that was on the other ſide of the Riuer of Sarthe, which was wonne the morrow after, the ſaid Boyſdauphin hauing cauſed more than halfe to bee burned, and that which was next to the bridge, which was the faireſt houſing. All their valour appeared in nothing but in that. For three daies folowing, whilſt the Gabeons wer a making and other preparatiues neceſſarie for the batte-rie,
