SIR BERTRAND ÏV CUESCLrN AID THE LOltfr " DE CLISSON rrEFEAT THE FORCES Of SIR ROBERT KNOLLES AT PGKTrVALïtf*. £Q0£? after fir Re*tr*nd d*i Guefcftn tod bee^ ^ «wreftcd with tfye dignity çf omftaWe, be -tc# the king he wiflifd to form an expedition agaipfl: fir Robert K*KUe* fnd his forces, who we#e at that time on the borers of Mpipe and This W£? very agpgeftfete to the Jting, ^who iaid m bim, ' Take aqy .-number ^f :fnen at grms pleafe, and whatever elfe you may think right/ The conftable-made every necefïàry £Ç€$*r#iQfi, and colk&ed a .large body of men -at .arms, Arç» tons and • others, -and parched cowards tyLaine taking with .him the lord .de Cliffen. The confty-ble came-to the city of Mans, where he fixed his head-quarters, and the lord de Cliflbn in another town hard by : they might be about five hundred lances. Sir Robert Knolies and his army were ftill in that part of the country, but they did not agree very well together j for there was an Englifh knight among them, called fir John Menftre- • Pont-Valin,—a' town in Anjou, election of la Flèche worth* 110