Thç lords de Coucy and de la Riviçre had bo-i -fiçged the city of Jfnyojf with a great forcé, whisk mas datfy incrcafipg froip the additions the king of France if as fending to them from all .quarters, Bajreux is a handfqme aqd ftrong pity (tear the fea, which at that time beloved to the king of Na-; varre. The citizens (finding themfelves thus .bf-r ficged by their neighbours, who tpld çhem, Jthv if die town were taken by ftorm, they would all i*H cvitably be deftroyçd, both men and women, and the town re-peoplefl with another fet of inhabi-tants,) began tp be ferioirfly alarmed* They FAW i|0 appearance of afi5ftancc coming to fhcj& but^* on ttye contrary, found çheffjfelvcs in opposition tq. the lord Charles de Navaprc, to whom the county^ of Eyreux belonged, in f igjtf: p.f fuçcefiion to his Iftc mother. T% inh^bifluiçs alfq jiftemd tQ the. harangues of the lords de Coucy and 4ela Riviere,; who, with injpreflive IWGTWGC, Ibewcd them the daggers into which they yfc^t running : knowing likewife that their bifhop yag well inclined towards • the French* they thought, cçpûdçring ai} things, it would be much better for them : to furipftder « th.eircity from î^ffedion, as they if ere require^ to do by the above m^tiqnejj lqrds, fhan tq RÇMYJR tn fuch peri}. The inhabitants of Bayeux dengnded a fruce for three day^j during which time, a treaty was fq £ar concluded .that the lords de Coucy and de la Riviere entered the city, and took pofleffiori of it ' for the king of France, as his acknowledged com-rniffaries. ' * ' The 37§-