One day thefe lords of Prance and of Hainault drew out thei/ army to the field in gay fpirits, and in noble array. It was a fine fight to behold the banners of thefe lords flying before them, and the gallant mufter they made. They began an attack, but with little advantage j for many were killed and wounded} and nothing gained. According to the information which I then received, I believe it was on the fifth day they left Ardres, without any other a&ion, and each man returned to Ms own homey Thus was this expedition put an end to. We will now return to what was going forwards in a diftant part of the country, and relate the fiege of Réalville in Quercy by the French, There were upwards of twelve thoufand combatants, all good men at arms ; and at two days march were the duke of Berry, fir John d'Armagnac, fir • John de Villemur, the lord de Beaujeu, and others from Auvergne and Burgundy, in all about three thou-fand fighting men, who were ready to advance fhould there be occafion. Sir John Chandos, the captai de Buch, fir Guif-card d'Angle, and the others who were guarding the frontiers of Montauban, knew well what was paffing at Réalville, and what the ftrength of their own forces in that part of the country 'confifted of. They found they were not ftrong enough to fight, nor to raife the fiege ; for the earls of Cambridge and Pembroke, who were befieging Bourdeilles, would not give up that fiege. The French had fet their miners to work at Réalville, and by their machines, which caft Hones, i &c 42f