Between Laon and Rheima were other pillagers, whofe principal garrifon was at Vely, in which there were fix hundred men. Rabigeois de Dury, m EÉgtfflkntfft^ *à» tie gëfefnùt of* it. Ife re-tained .alt fbrfs of pettom, vrôfo vvf&ed to ferve uider him; and, as he paid well and punctually, he wits duly oBeyed. t'\ • • He Ttiu^ i^itE him Robert Scott, a§- companion in his gains ^dfofles^ who, coring the Cbriftmaa holidays^ won and plundered the ftrong caftie and town of RQucy*, in wbich he eftabliflied a garrifon. thai was after wards' a gnea{ grievance to the neighs bourhood. Âte fanfomed, the. e^rj, • his lady and daughter^ for the fiim of twelve thoufand golden florins au mouton, aqd Jkept 4 poffeffioQ* of the town and' caftïe alï that winter and enfuing fummer of As fôon as fhe* earl of Roucy had paid his ran-Éîiïij he wenf torefifje in loon, and in divers other places. Ûuring this period, there was not any tilling of the ground, fo that it caufed a great Scarcity in a fliort time*. *A mwi ia Picardy, cHtteft 3fid ekftioii ôf tarjti. t \ • CHAP,