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fite of the League, that this requeſt had been preſented at the day of a Battaile. But the King ſeeing, that neither ſhame nor loſſe could make his enimies come out of Paris, and that there was no hope of bringing them to battaile, but by extreame neceſsitie, hee ſent backe againe the Duke de Longueuile with the forces that he had brought with him out of Picardie, to refreſh themſelues in the ſaid Prouince, Monſieur La Nowe returning with him. Hee did the like alſo by the Lord de Giury, which came and met him a verie good troupe at his departure from the Suburbs of Paris, ſending him toward the Countrey of Brie: and with the reſt which he had, hee was determined to make a little voyage to the Riuer of Loir, beeing called thether by manie occaſions: and this hee did, ſtaying vntill his ſtrange forces that aroſe firſt were further on their way, than they were then. So he departed from Estampes, on Saturday the x. of Nouember: and taking his waye through the Countrey of Beauſſe, beeing aduertiſed that the towne of Ianuille, which is in the middeſt of the ſame, ſtopt all the paſſages, deſired to winne it in paſsing. And being arriued vppon the Sundaie, the Captaine that was in it, made a ſhewe of defence, but ſeeing the Canon approach, yeelded it; and departing with 200 harquebuziers, his Maieſtie entred the ſame day, and lodged there the morow after: thoſe of the towne receiuing no diſpleaſure nor diſcommoditie, no more than if they neuer had reiected the obedience of his Maieſtie. The King leauing good garriſon in the Caſtle, which is a reaſonable good place, departed thence, going through the Land of Beauſſe, to the towne ofChaſteau-