M • . • 4* Af wi», but fcc made riot my attempt » fatty out m the Englifh «r otherwifo attack them. "The EngHlh, having fiaifhed their courfe, had kaked a fhort time at the barriers ; and, feeing no appearance of any ofre coming to them, they fet out on their return to the main army, who were waiting for them drawn up in a line of battle. However, before they departed, ihey wiihed to leave a remembrance behind, and fet Ire to the ftburto of Arras, in order to entice the inhabit-ants out of the town* who had not any good will to do fo. This fire did much mifchicf, for it burnt a large monaftery of preaching friar*, cloif-ters and all that was without the town. After this, the Englifh continued their mareh, taking the road to Bapaumc*, burning and ra-vaging the whole country. The army was con-ftantly in morion, and having entered the Ver* mandois, arrived at Royef ; which town • they burnt, and then marched towards HamJ in Ver-mandois. All the inhabitants of the flat country had retired into this town, and into St. Quentin and Peronhe, carrying with them every thing port-able. The Englifh found nothing but barns full of unthrefhed corn, for it was now after Auguft. They r advanced by eafy marches, withoijt any labour ôr fatigue* until they came to a rich conn- * B^pannie,—a ftrong tefwn of Artois, fix leagues from Arras, f Royt#-«& ftrong town in Picardy, eighteen leagues from Arm • t Hai%—1 ttwn in Picardy, on the Somme, fix leagues from Roye. .