S5 • ' of which there were plenty in the country, and made themfelves comfortable with what they could get. Meat and ftrong wines were in abundance j of which the archers drank fo much that they were for the greater part of their time in drunk ; and very often by drinking too much new wine they had fevers, and in the morning fuch head-achs as to prevent them from doing any thing the remainder of the day, fof it was now the vintage. CHAP. YL THE FRENCH KNIGHTS LEAVE CORUNNA, AND JOIN THE KING OF CASTILLE.—THEY ACQUIRE MUCH WEALTH BY PLUNDERING THE COUNTRY, IN OR-DER TO FRUSTRATE THE ENGLISH. glE John de Châtelmorant, le Barrois des Barres and the other french knights who had guarded Corunna, hearing that the duke of Lancafter had been peaceably received in St. Jago, held a council on what they fhould do, faying,— It does not fjgnify for us to remain here any longer, fince we fhall meet with no fortunate adventures : let us inarch to Burgos, where the king is, and learn from him what his intentions are : perhaps he may be going to meet the Engiiih, for, if he allow them quietly to eftablifh themfelves, by degrees they will