ccpting the coriftablefhip which was continued tq him. When he learnt that his brothers had all been concerned in this matter, he became melancholy, and never after loved the duke of Lancafter as he had hitherto done. We will now return to the affairs of Brittany. CHAP. XLIV. . . THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAM BESIEGES NANTES.— SALLIES ARE MADE BY THE GARRISON. YOU have heard of the agreement which had been fworn to, between the duke of Brittany and earl of Buckingham, to befiege Nantes. ; When the duke had left Rennes,, the lord de Montbourfier, fir. Stephen Guyon, the lord de la HoulTaye and their company retired to Vannes and Hennebon ; and the earl of Buckingham and his army prepared to march to Nantes : they fet out, therefore, from the fuburbs of Rennes, and the adjacent villages where they % had been quartered, and lodgecl that day at Chaftillony on the next day at Bain, and the fhirdiat No^ay,; #id Qf^the fourth they quartered theovfelves inrthe ftiburbs of Nantes. \ -The earl Was lodgecl*at fhe '.gate of Sauvetout : R 2 . tlje m3 (