quitted themfelves in joining their entreades with thofe of the fénéfchal. When thefe four knights faw they could Dot gain any thing, they armed themfelves, ordering their people, who were riot in ' any great numbers, to do the fame ; and, on the return of the tide, they * embarked in four boats which they took from the fhore, at break of day, * and made for the veflels of their friends, who were right glad to fee them. ' They told the " carl of Pembroke and fir Guifcard d'Angle, that they muft not expeét any afliftance from la Ro-' chelle, as the townfmcn had pofitively refufed kj to which, as they could not better themfelves, they replied that they trufted in the mercy of God, and would wait the event ; that a time might come when the Rocheliers fhould repent of their refufaL CHAP. XXXVI. THB. EARL OF PEMBROKE IS DEFEATED, AND MADE PRISONER MY THE SPANIARDS.*—THEY SAIL FROM LA ROCHELLE WITH THEIR PRI-SONERS.—THE CAPTAL DE BUCH ARRIVES THERE, BUT TOO LATE. *TX7HEN it was day, and the tide had flowed * full, the Spaniards weighed their anchors, and, with a great noife of trumpets and drums, formed 159 • .