• tfâ Spteiàfrdsi They held long councflsrjfoir they (hould aft, and which way they ihould advance, for «hey already had their MpmùM of the loyalty of . the Rbchellew. They appointed fir John Dcverctur fenéfchai of ta- Rochelle, with tfiree hundred men at arms for the defence of the^raftle, for a$ long a? they Should be matters of that, the town dared not to rebel/ This bûfîneft dorid^ the captai do Inch/ wha commanded the expedition, lord Thomas Percy, the carf mît Angus, fir Richard de Pontchat-don, the fouldictt, Ir Beras de Ja Lande, and'f he others, with their men, marched from la Rochelle. About four hundred iances took the road for Soubife* ; for there were fome Bretons near that place, who having taken poffef-fion of feveral churches and fmali forts, had forti-fied them: but ^s foon^as ithefe lords approached they fled, and the country was freed of fuch vifi- tors. . At this time, the conftable of France, the dukes of Berry and Bourbon/ the count d'Alençon, the dauphin d'Auvergne, the lord Louis de Sancerre, the lorcjs de Cliffon and de Lava}, the vifeourçt dp Rofeaj*, the lord de Beaumanoir, and numbers of the batons of France* had taken the field, and Were with the army in the countries of Anjou, Au-vergne, and Berry : in ail* upwards of three thou-land fpears. . • • Thofe lords who were under the immediate command of the conftable advanced into Poitou* • SoMfe^* town in Saintoage, fix leagues from la Ro-chelle» - - i » where*