giifb, a& their forces, were gmatiy Weakened by & Naurfon de B^gerant, le hourg de l'Efpture: and le bomrg Camus, remained ftenéy to the Englifh as well as the moft approved captains among* tàem, fach as fir Robert Briquet, Robert Thia^ John Trefnelle, Gaillard de Motte» and Aimery dt Rochechouart, Thefe companies of Englifh and Gafcons, with their followers, fixed their quarters in the bifhop* nek of Mans in lower Normandy ; where they took a town called Vire *, and deftroyed and ruined all the neighbouring country. Thus thefe free com-panics, changed their fides; but all of them were engaged for the French Or EngHfhw The king of England determined to fend his fon* Ednraad of Langley earl of Cambridge, and Mi fon-in-law, John Haftiags earl of Pembroke, to the affiftaouce of the prince of Wales in the duchy of Ac* quitaine, with the command of a body of men at arm* and crofs bowmen. Hè alfo named fuch as he thought right m fend with them : and m the number were^ the lord Braddefton f, fir Bryan Stapkton, fir Jqbur Trivet, fir Thomas Banafter and divers others* They* embanked as fpeedtly as they could, and put m fea, having with them four hundred men at a*ms and as many archers. They fleered their courier fer Brittany^ and, having a wiad to their wifh, * Vire,—a town m Normandy, ©m, the riicr Vire» diocefe of Bayeux. t In Froiflart, it is * le fire de Tarbeftonne,* which " 1 thinJc tmrft be Braddefton. See Dtigdale's Baronage. Bd 2 they 4ÛS