chiefest among them offered to paye a great summe of crownes for their raunsome, but they could not be heard. They were pursued more then a myle, and were so discomfited, that they fled without any resistance, and, if the night had not let them, they had pursued them further.

The Minister, whē he saw the great effusion of bloud and the enemyes to flye, he cryed to the people, saying, that it was enough, and exhorted them to giue thankes vnto God. They whiche heard him, obeyed, and fell to prayer: but they whiche were further of, and heard hym not, chased their enemyes till darke night: In so much, that if the rest had done the like, very fewe of their enemyes had escaped. That day they spoyled their enemyes of a great part of their armour and munition. MarginaliaGod fighteth for hys people.So God restored in this combate and in others, to the poore Waldoys, the armour, whiche the Lord of Trinitie, had taken frō them before. Thankes were giuen vnto God in euery place, and euery man cryed: who is he which seeth not that God fighteth for vs? This victory gaue great courage to the poore Waldoys, and greatly astonished the enemyes.

MarginaliaPharaos hurt yet remayneth indurate.The 18. of February, the Lord of Trinitie, not satisfied with burning and destroying the greatest part of Villars, returned to burne all the litle villages rounde aboute, whiche perteine to the same, and especially, to pursue the poore people, whiche were fled vp into the mountaines, and diuiding his armye into three partes, he entred, by the three seuerall wayes aboue mencioned. The ij. first companyes ioyned together betwene Villars and Boby, hauyng a great company of horsemen. From thence they went to seke the people whiche were in the mountaine, of Combe, by such a waye, as they did not suspect, and where there were no warders to defende the place: Notwithstandyng, the warders which were next, seing their enemyes ascending that way, spedely ranne before them, and callyng vpon God for his ayde and succour, they set them selues agaynst their enemyes: MarginaliaThe Waldoys agayne driue their enemyes backe.and albeit they were but xxx. in number, yet they valiauntlye beate them backe twise, comming out of their Bulwarkes, that is to say, certeine houses, which at þ^t tyme, serued thē for that purpose, albeit they were not made to that vse. Many of the enemyes were slayne at those two combates, and not one of the other side. The Lord of Trinitie seyng his men so fiercely driuen backe, sent out the greatest parte of hys armye: whiche were estimed to bee about xv. hundreth men. There came also about a hundreth to succour the warders. The combate was very cruell and fierce. At lēgth, þ^e poore people were assaulted so vehemētly, þ^t they were fayne to forsake their bulwarkes, losyng ij. of their men. Then the enemyes thought all to be theirs, and blew their trumpets, triumphyng that they had put the people to flight: But the people retiryng not past a stones cast, tooke courage, and crying altogether to the Lord for succour, they turned them selues to the face of their enemies, and with great force and power, they hurled stones at them with their slynges.

After this, the enemies rested them selues a while, and by and by after, they gaue a furious assault, but yet they were agayne mightly resisted. Yet once agayne the enemyes rested, and in the meane tyme, the people fell to prayer, callyng vpon God altogether, with their faces lifted vp towardes heauen: whiche frayed th enemyes more then any thyng els. MarginaliaGod geueth victorye by the handes of a fewe.After this they gaue yet an other great assault, but God by the handes of a few, droue them backe. Yea God here shewed his great power euen in the litle children also, whiche feruently called vppon God, threw stones at their enemyes, and gaue courage also vnto the men. So did also the wemen, and the vulgare sorte, that is to say, those whiche were meete for no feates of warre, remainyng vpon the mountaine: and beholding these furious combats, knelyng vpō the groūd, and hauyng their faces lifted vp towardes heauen, with teares and gronynges, they cryed: Lord helpe vs. Who heard their prayers.

After that these iij. assaultes were giuen, there came one vnto them, crying: bee of good courage, God hath sent those of Angrongne to succour vs: he mente that they of Angrongne were fightyng for them in an other place, that is to say, towardes Tailleret, where the thyrd part of the armye was. The people perceiuyng that they of Angrongne were come to that place to succour them, began to crye: blessed be God, who hath sent vs succour: they of Angrongne be here, they of Angrongne be here, to succour vs. MarginaliaThe enemyes retyre.The enemyes hearing this, were astonished and sodeinly blew a retreite, and retired into the Playne. MarginaliaThe Angronians helpe their fellowes.That troupe which was gone towardes Tailleret, diuided them selues into iij. companies. The first marched by the side of the mountaine, burnyng many houses, and ioyned with the maine armye. The second company, whiche was of seuen score, marched higher, thinkyng to take the people at vnwares, but they were by seuen mē, strongly resisted and driuen backe. The third company atteyned the toppe of the mountaine, thinkyng to enclose the people, but as God would, they of Angrongne which came to succour them, encountred with them, and with great force, put them to flight.

They of Villars, of whom mencion is made before, after they had refreshed them selues with a litle bread and wyne (for the most parte of them had eaten nothyng all that day) chased their enemyes, till it was almost night: so fiercely, that the Maister of the campe was faine to sēd to the Lord of Trinitie (which was at Tour) for succour, or els al would haue ben lost. MarginaliaThe persecutors put to flight.Which he did: and immediatly he rode with al spede, to Luserne, to saue him self, hearing the Alarme which was giuen at S. Iohn by those of Angrōgne, & fearyng lest the way should haue ben stopped. The armye retired with great difficultie (notwithstanding the new ayde which was sent them) and with great losse of their mē. One of their Captaines confessed since, that if they had ben pursued any further, they had fled all that night longe. Since that tyme, they neuer returned agayne into the Valley of Luserne.

On Monday, beyng the xvij. day of Marche, next folowyng, the Lord of Trinitie, to bee reuenged of those of the Medow of Tour, assēbled all þ^e force þ^t he could make, with the Gentlemen of the countrey: in so much, that where as afore, his armye was commonly but iiij. thousand, it was now betwene vi. and vij. thousand: and secretly in the night season he encamped with part of his armye, in the myddest of Angrongne, from whence the poore inhabitantes were fled before. The next morning, after the Sermon & prayers were ended, they perceaued þ^e other parte of the armye to be encamped at the foote of the mountaine of Angrongne, on þ^e east side. Soone after, they perceiued how both partes of þ^e army coasted þ^e hils side, the one towardes the other, beyng such a multitude, so glittering in their harnesse, & marching in such aray, þ^t the poore people, at þ^e first, were astonished therat. MarginaliaThe Angronians fall to prayer.Notwithstāding, the assemble fell downe vpō their knees iij. or iiij. times, crying: helpe vs, O Lord, besechyng him to haue regard to þ^e glorie of his holy name: to stay þ^e effusiō of bloud, if it were his good pleasure, & to turne þ^e hartes of their enemyes, to þ^e truth of his holy Gospel. These ij. partes of the armye ioyned together, nere to the Bulwarkes of the Medowe of Tour, and gaue the assault in three seuerall places. One of the bandes mounted secretly by the rockes, thinkyng to haue enclosed the people in their Bulwarkes. But as soone as they which kept the Bulwarke below, had espyed them, they forsoke their place and marched streight towardes them, and as they marched, they mette with the ayde which was sent vnto them, from the Valley of Luserne very luckely, and commyng (as it were) from heauen: whiche ioynyng together, soone discomfited their enemyes with stones and harquebushes. They pursued thē fiercely in the rockes, and vexed them wonderfully, because the rockes are so steepe that no man can ascēde or descend, without great payne and difficultie. The Captaine of this bande was named Bastian of Vergil, a man very expert in the affaires of warre. MarginaliaThe proud threates of Amman.He at his goyng out of his lodgyng, threatened that he would do great and terrible things that day. His Hostesse hearyng that, sayd vnto hym: Mounsieur, if our religion be better then theirs, you shall haue the victorie: but if theirs be better then ours, you shall not preuaile. Shortly after, the Captaine was brought agayne into his Inne, so wounded and so feble, that he was not like to liue. Thē sayd his Hostesse to him: Mounsieur, it is now well sene, that their religion is better then ours.

There was also an other bande, which kept the toppe of the hill, to assault the bulwarkes, from thence. The middelmost Bulwarke was then assaulted, in the which were very fewe to defende the same: which seyng the number of their enemies, retired backe, leauing therin but fiue onely to defende it. There was a huge rocke, not farre from the foresayd Bulwarke. Behind the same, a great number of the enemyes were hyd: And anone there issued out ij. ensignes, assuryng them selues to wynne the Bulwarke: but immediatly one of their ensigne bearers was wounded to death: Whereupon many reculed backe. The other set vp his ensigne vpō the Bul-