not be all armed. Each lord was to give thefe or-ders to his own people: this, however, was not done fo fecretly but that the Englilh were informed of it by one of their countrymen, a prifoner in the French army, who made his efcape, and told fir Robert Knolles of their intentions. - , Sir Robert fummoned a council of thofe in whofe opinion he moft confided, who, confidering the fuperiority of the French forces, thought it not advifable to wait for them. Upon this, their bag-gage was immediately loaded : they decamped, and were conduced by thofe of the country whom they had made prifoners. At midnight the French were drawn up in bat-tle-array, and marched according as it had been ordered. They arrived by day-break on the moun-tain, where they thought to have found the Englilh: but, when they faw they had decamped, they fent off fome of their moft expert and beft mounted, over the hills to fee if they could get any tidings of them. They returned about nine o'clock, and reported that they had feen them on their march, named the roads they had taken, and added they were advanc-ing towards Limoges. When the lords of Auvergne heard this, they broke up their expedition, and each returned to his own home. Very foon after, a treaty of marriage was entered into, and completed, between the gallant knight the lord Berault, dauphin of Auvergne, with the daugh-ter of the count de Forefts, whom he had by a lifter of the lord James de Bourbon. H h * CHAPf 467