CHAP. CCLX. SIR ROBERT KNOLLES AND SIR JOHN CHAMBOft . RAISE THE SIEGE OF • DU RMEJ*.—tTHEY |-Alf SIEGE TO THE OAST^E OB HOMME #-t TYURING the fiege of Durmel, there were many ' attacks, flrîrmïfhes and gallant feats of arms | for they were good and able men, as well thofe who befieged the place as thofe who defended it. Had they not been fuch fkilful foldiers, they could not have held out as they did. - The Englifh and their ^artifans who lay before it, did not gain much advantage, for they were overpowered in two ways : it rained night and day, which hurt both men and ' horfes : added to this, there was fuch a fcarcity of provifion, they had great difficulty in procuring wherewithal to fatisfy their hunger. A loaf was fold there for three old groats. They were diftreffed to obtain any even at fuch a price. Of wines, they had a fufficient quan-tity, which to them were of the greateft comfort. In this fituation, they remained upwards of five -weeks. When they perceived that they made no imprefTion, nor were likely to take the garrifon of Durmel, and that they remained there in a very comfortlefs ftate, they determined to raife the fiege, and to march for the town and caftle pf Domme, which was fituated in a richer country, ^fir Robert de Domme, the lord of it, was gover-t nor of the town and caftle ; ap4 there was with hin| * Domme,—a town In Perigord, election of Sarlet.on the Jpordogne. 43§