a mountain and the Englifh did the fame on ano-ther : each army faw the fires the other was making. The next morning, the French decamped, and ad-vanced Hill nearer to meet them, for they were well acquainted with the country, and, about nooii, took up their quarters on an eminence right before the Englifh : the two armies were only feparated by a meadow of about twelve acres. The Englifh immediately drew up in order of battle, and placed their archers on the declivity of the hill, in the front. • . ' The French lords thee drew up their army in two battalions, each of which confifted of upwards of five thoufand men. The count de Clermont, dauphin of Auvergne, conntfanded tbe firft battalion :. his name was Hé-rault He was knighted on the fpot, and difplayed his banner, which was quartered with the arms of Auvergne and Clermont*. There were near to • In all my mamifcripts and printed edttioBS, it is Auvergne and Merquel. Denys Sauvage fays, that there mult be fome miftake, and propofes Clermont in lieu of Merquel, which, as be was count de Clermont as well as dauphin of Auvergne, feems to me proper. Barnes changes the word Merquel into Marte-quesi but he gives no reafon or authority for,& doing. ' \ The counts of Auvergne added the title of dauphin, in rivai-fhip to the dauphin of Viennois, 1167. How long they con-tinued it I know not. The laft dauphin of Viennois was Hum-bert, who ceded the title and his eftates to the crown of France 1345, on condition of the heir apparent to that crown bearing it. Dauphin was formerly a title of honor, as duke, marquis, &e. is BOW. Vol.. II. H h his 465