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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries
from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.4
page 323
three- hundred lances,, taking the mad for fa Reolr,
and came to a certain town called Yurct*, p which
they quartered themfelves.
The French knew nothing of this ambufcade,
and fuffered much from it. The fiege of Bergerac .was ftill going forward : there were many flcirmifhes
and deeds of arms performed with the garrifon by the befiegers ; but the French were not great gainers* for fir Perducas d'Albret, the governor, was very a&ive in oppofing them, that no blame might be imputed to him.
The army called another council, and refôlved to fend for a large machine, called a fow, from la Réole, in order the more to harafs the garrifon. This fow was a large engine, which caft weighty ftones, and one hundred men, completely armed, could be drawn up in it, and attack the walls. Sir Peter de Beuil, fir John de Vers* fir Baldwin de Cremoux, fir Alain de Beaumorit, the ' lord de Montcalay and the lord de Gaures, were ordered to go for this engine : they left the army, in con-fequence, with about three hundred men at arms whom they could depend on, and, fording the river Dordonne, rode towards la Rtole : they ad-vanced between Bergerac and la Reole, until they came to Yurac, where the Englifh were in ambuf-padfe with upwards of four hundred combatants, of which they were ignorant,
• Yotet,—probably Yurac,--* village iij Goienoe, near Bourdeaux, ^
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