%îthin reach of ît| for he was a FTROAG * and Inêf knight, well made in all his limbs : but he him-felf received fuch a blow on his câfque that he reeled, and would have fallen to the ground had he not been fupported by his fqiiire. • He fuffeifed from this blow as long as he lived. ' ' • Several knights and fquires of the Englifh WERE greatly furprifed that the arms on the lord du Chin's banners were precisely the fame as thole of the lord de Coucy* and faid* ( How is this ? has the lord de Coucy fent any of his men hither? he ought to be one of our friends/ ' The battle was very mortal 1 for in the end althoft all. the Englifh were killed or made prifoners, few efoaping. The lord de Bourfiers took two brothers erf the name of Pembroke ; one a knight, the other a fquire. Sir John de Beuil took two others, with whom, they retreated into Ribettlont. The Englifh army marched bj, btit made no aflault -, for they thought it Would be lôfing,time. Qrders were given to do. no damage, by burning* or otherwife, to the lands of the lord de Coucy* who was at the time in Lombardy, and interfered aot with the wars in France. The Englifh fixed their quarters in the valleys below Laon and lower down than Bruyères* and Çrecyt* whence they did much mifchief to the Laoanois* But before this, the king of France • Bruyère?»—a town in Picardy, dlocefe of Laoo. t Crecy fur Serre,—a town in Picardy, three leagues from Laon. VOL. IV. R had 241