left not any honfe whole, and killed or drove into the woods all the women and children. When the French had completed this deftruc- ' tion, they were ordered to march and lay liege to the caftle of Gaure, and afterwards to do the fame to Ghent. ' But all this ended in nothing. " ' CHAP, x; THE KING OF FRANCE LEAVES FLANDERS, AND DISBANDS HIS ARMY.—DURING THE TIME HE ' . IS AT PARIS, TREATING WITH AMBASSADORS FROM HUNGARY, NEWS ARRIVES THAT THE. MARQUIS DE BLANCQUEFORT * HAD FORCIBLY MARRIED THE HEIRESS OF HUNGARY. INTELLIGENCE was brought to the king,. while at Artavelle, that the queen of Hungary-had fent the bilhop ofVaffereul, attended by lève-rai knights and fquires as her ambafTadors, who had brought credential letters to fay that they, were come to foek for the lord Lewis of France, count de Valois, and who figned himself king of Hungary, to conduct him to his wife in Hungary, whom John de la Perfonne, a French knight, had efpoufed by procuration for the laid Lewis count de Valois. • . • ,%* m i -r-^-r ifl i , I, • •„., ••• „•„,,.„ m,„,.,,„• „••,•„ ••ni.,, I, p., • mm CJ • This, I suppofe, fhould be Brandenburgh. . ' ' Th» 44