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Chaſteubriant, and brought with them the Captaine and manie others priſoners.
His Maieſtie hauing ſpent certaine dayes with the Prince Dumbees, and taking order for the affaires of that Prouince, he ſent him againe to his charge; and diſpatched Mounſieur Marſhall D’aumount, for to gather his ſtrange Forces together. And the King came from Lauall vnto the Towne of Maienna-la-Iabes, where he was verie well receiued, and aſſured himſelfe of the Caſtle, without leauing anie other Garriſon in the Towne. Hee arriued at Alanſon the three and twentieth daye, hauing paſſed a moſt foule Countrey.
And as concerning my Lord Marſhall Byron, who departed with the Armie from the Towne of Mans the ninth day of the ſaid moneth of December, hee could not arriue at Alanſon till the fifteenth daye following, by reason of the foule waie, which hindred the carriage of the Ordinaunce: Here the Engliſh entred a bulwarke or rauelin, wel inuironed and defended with water, by pulling downe a draw bridg with a hooke, and wold haue aſſaied to to enter the towne, but the marſhal Byron forbad them expreſlie. and hauing cauſed the Towne to be inuironed certaine dayes before by the Lord of Artray, who at his firſt comming tooke the Suburbes, and droue them of the Towne afterward to come to compoſition, and yeeld, Captaine Lago (which was Gouernour) retiring himſelfe into the Caſtle with foure hundred and fiftie Souldiers, making ſhewe that he woudl defend it; the place being verie good and ſtrong, inuironed with water, good walls, good flankes, and great Towers.
The ſaide Lord Marſhall beeing entered into the Towne, kept ſo good order in it, that it was not ſeen that it had been beſieged, the ſhops beeing kept open the ſame daye, as if it had been in peace.
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