number of handfdme betels, with partfh-churcheg, burnt ; for nothing was fpared; • • Thus did the Navarrois carry off with them great wealth, which they had found in the large fuburbs of Amiens, and returned with many prifoners to their different garrifons. The conftable and the earl of St. Pol, upon the retreat of the Navarrois, feparated their troops, and fent them to all the different gates of the city, with orders, tinder pain of death, to fuffer no one to quit the town. On the morrow morning, thefe two lords and fome of the. citizens of Amiens, who were ac-quainted with the manner in which the town bad of late been governed, and who fufpected fome of the citizens of both fexes of this treafon, went to the houfes of thofe they were in fearch of, and arretted feventeen, who were foon after beheaded in the public market-place. The abbé de Gars was among the number, who bad been an accomplice in tbii treafon, and had even lodged feme of the Navarrois in his houfe. Shortly after, fix of the principal inhabitants of Laon were arretted and executed, for a fimilar crime; and it would have gone hard with tbebifliop of that place if he had been caught, for he was ac-cufed of being coucerned, which afterwards he, could not deny ; but he quitted the town fecretly, m be had good friends, who gave him notice of what was likely to happen, and went immediately to the king of Navarre, at Melun fur Seme, who 420