bers, made not any appearance of quitting their embufcade; for they imagined the Englifh had near at hand their large battalion, and for that reafon wçre afraid to attack them : had they been better informed, there would have been à combat. They thus feparated from each other without any thing being done. The Spaniards returned that evening to Efteris* and the canon to Befioufe, when he related to his companions how he had feen the Spaniards in ambufcade between Huenca and Concrelet, adding, * If we had been all together, we could have fought with them/ The knights, there-fore, much repented that they had not kept all in one body. • Thus ended this excurfion of the Englifh and Gafcons; and when news was brought of it to the king of Portugal, he pretended to be much enraged, becaufe they had done it without his confent. The English and Gafcons remained the whole winter in their garrifons, without per-forming any thing worth mentioning, which wearied them much : it was not their fault no deeds of arms were done. • Don John of Cailille, however, was not idle in making his preparations. • He had fent to the king of France and to his uncles for fuccour, and had informed them of the arrival of the earl of Cambridge in Portugal. He alfo faid, that it was univerfally reported throughout Caftille and Portugal that the king of England, the duke of Laacafter, and the earl of Buckingham* with 28 •