%rîll tell yôu the reafon of it, and afterwards clear it tip. Long before this period* in the year 1375, there Was a'cruçl inftance of jiiftice executed at%Bour-deaux by the orders of fir Thomas Felton, lieute-nant for the king of England in the Bourdelois, upon fir William • lord de Pommiers, on fufpicion of treafon, which aftoniftied every one; By orders of fir Thomas Feit,on, this lord-de Pommiers was arretted in Bourdeaux, together With a lawyer* his fecretary and côunfellor, called John Coulon a native of ' Bourdeaux^ It was proved on them (as I was at the time informed), that the lord de Ponratierl had agreed to furrender himfelf and all his caftles to the French ; 'from which charge they could never clear themfelves, fo that they were condemned to death. The lord de Pommiers and his fecretary-were publicly beheaded in the market-place of the city of Bourdeaux, before ail the people, who much wondered thereat*. " His relations blamed this proceeding exceedingly, and that gallant knight, fir Aymon. de Pommiers, uncle to fir William, fct out from Bourdeaux • and the Bourdelois very • A. D. 1377» 1378. - . t # . ' • Rotuli Vafconiae de anno primo Ricardi IL-r^mbrana .16, I7, 18, 19. ' i. Proceflos judicii rcditi contra Willelmuni Sans* dominuirr ' iê Pomers pro proditidne, m curia Vafconicei et de CaitrU et fcçrrîs ftk fatisfa&h ad donpnum regem. • VOL. IV. X indig-