The Ghent men made likewife another e%r gine, (which they pointed againft the town, to cat large bars of hot copper. With fuch ma« chines, as cannons, bombardes, fows and mut-tons, did the Ghent army labour to annoy the garrifon of Oudenarde. They, however, com-forted each other as well as they could, and de-fended themfelves againft thefe attack^. They poade fallies three or four times a-week, in which they gained more honour tfyan difgrace, wdglfp jwore profit than lofsv . CHAP. XXII, • • A DETACHMENT Of THE GHENT ARMY FROM BE-FORE OUDENARDE, IN OVERRUNNING THE JLANDS OF THEIR LORD, BURN SOME VILLAGES • • ON THE FRONTIERS OF FRANCE, WHICH CAUSES A WAR BETWEÇN TflE KING OF FRANCE Apj THEM, ' WHILST the fiegeof Oudenarde washing forward, eleven hundred men left the army, with a determination to fcour the coun-try, and to ruin and deftroy sthe houfes of thofe knights who, having quitted Flanders^ had e&** blifhed themfelves, with their wives and families, In Hainault, Bryant, apd in Artois. 'They ac-complifhed their purpofe -, for this detachment committed great damage throughput Hft^ers, not leaving any houfe of a gentleman unburot, or fiaodiiig. They then came agdp to _M»**