CHAP. CLXIXm : TfcE MEN Otf #ICÀAlSY ËESIEGE THE NÀVAtROISt tn St. VALEfcY. THE KlNGÛOtf ÔF FRANCE IS FILLED WITH NAVARROIS. ^HE conftable of Fiance and the young earb of St. Pol. acquired great popularity in Picanfy* for the fuccours which they had brought ta Amiens., Thé knights and, fquires pf that province upited themfelves to thecq; and they/fought they were* now in fufficient force to lay fiege tp St. Valéry* The ^unliable fent to all the. principal towns, t* inform them of it: .upon which, tjiofe of Tourna^ I^ifle, Douay, Arras, Betbune, St.'Omer; St. Que»t tin, Peronne, Amiens, Corbie, and Abbeville, met, together : they engaged to fiqd a certain number oS men, whom they fent ta thp confUble^and the ewlof St, Pol. • './;.." Even the knights and fquire** of Hainault jffit tbemfelvet in smtiop, and came thither* aç$ojun£, of the efiatea-theyhud in Frapp©. , % . The Itfrdr d'AndreglwK fcpt; thither ihe young, fenefchal of HaiajluH, ttai'ttatà J*n dcj^^Mn, magnifieeutly eqwpf edy tbft ford Hugh A'Antejuag his coufin, with fhany others; when, they nian^ed* to lay fiege to St. Valéry. There were full two thoufand knights and fquires; and the chief towns had fent twelve thoufand com-mon foldiers at their ex pence: Abbeville, in par-ticular, was too heavily taxed, for thence they took all their purveyances. m