«jueen-dowager ; but Aie was obliged to abide by this bargain, or worfe might have happened. News of this was soon publifhed and it was fent to the bilhop and knights of Hungary who were on their return from France ;: for the count de Valois, having completed his arrangements, had proceeded as far on his journey a§ Troys.. He was much enraged when this event was told him » but he could not any way remedy it: Thé Hun-garians departed very angry, as indeed they had reafon ; and the young count de Valoir returned to his brother and uncles at Paris, who, having never depended much on this marriage, faid, « the count de Valois was fortunate in having his wife taken from him, for Hungary was a diftant coun-try, and out of reach of the French, from whence they could never have had any aflistance.' Thefe confiderations made them indifferent about it, and induced them to think of another connection for him. This was the duke of Mi-lan's daughter, heirefs of Lombardy!, which ter-ritory is more valuable than all Hungary, and nearer at hand to the French. - ' * We will leave thefe marriages, and fpeak erf the duke of Bourbon, who, having taken Tail-lebourg, was in Poitou befieging Verteuil ; and return to the admiral of France in Scotland, sCnd % how he went on. • ' VOL. VII. 1. CHAP. 49'