Î44. Aimed. Advife your countrymen and mer-chants not to pafs through Flandef s ; for we trell know, that the king of France, your lord, will make war on us, for which we are pre-pared. ' • * Thefe citizens of Tournay* after having heard this fpeech, returned to Tournay to relate all that had paffed. A proclamation was made, that no one (hould have any intercourfe or deal-ings with the Flemings, without incurring the indignation of the king. The citizens of Tour-ftay, who had been imprifoned at Bruges, re-turned ; and thofe from Courtray were fent back. They dared not deal openly with the Flemings ; but, when they wanted any mer-chandife from Flanders, they applied to Valen-ciennes ; for thofe of Brabant, Holland, Hain-ault, Zealand and Liege, might travel.and carry art their commerce through all Flanders with perfect fecurity. The fiege of Oudenarde still went on in the feme manner. * Philip and his Ghent men were encamped on the hill of Oudenarde, on the fide of Hainault, where they had planted bom-bardes, cannons, and large machines, which made fuch a noife when fired that they could be heard upwards of fix leagues. Near them, but below, on the ' banks of the Scheld, were encamped thofe from Bruges, as you afcend the river by the gate of Bruges. Thofe of Pope-ringue, Ypres, Caffel and the Franconate, were quartered near them, fo that* they furrounded the'town completely. * Oudenarde