uided MarginaliaThe Angronians helpe their fellowes.them selues into three companies. The first marched by the side of the mountaine, burnyng many houses, & ioyned with the maine armye. The second company whiche was of seuen score, marched hygher, thinking to take the people at vnwares. But they were by seuen men strongly resisted and driuen backe. The third company atteyned the toppe of the mountaine, thinking to enclose the people, but as God would, they of Angrongne which came to succour them, encountred with them, and with great force put thē to flight.

They of Villars, of whom mention is made before, after they had refreshed them selues with a litle bread and wyne (for the most part of them had eaten nothyng al that day) chased their enemies tyl it was almost night: so fiercely, that the maister of the campe was faine to send to the Lord of Trinitie (which was at Tour) for succour, or els all would haue bene lost.MarginaliaThe persecutors put to flight. Which he dyd: and immediately he rode with al speed to Luserne, to saue hym selfe, hearing the alarme which was geuen at S. Iohn, by those of Angrongne, and fearing lest the way should haue ben stopped. The army retyred with great difficultie (notwithstanding the newe ayde which was sent them) and with great losse of their men. One of their captaines confessed since, that if they had bene pursued any further, they had fledde all that night long. Since that tyme, they neuer returned agayne into the valley of Luserne.

On Monday, being the xvij. day of Marche next folowyng, the Lorde of Trinitie, to be reuenged of those of the medowe of Tour, assembled al the force that he could make with the Gentlemen of the countrey. In so muche, that whereas before his army was commonly but foure thousand, it was nowe betweene sixe and seuen thousand: and secretly in the night season he encamped with part of his army in the middest of Angrongne, from whence the poore inhabitants were fled before. The next mornyng after the Sermon and prayers were ended, they perceiued the other part of the armye to be encamped at the foote of the mountaine of Angrongne, on the East side. Sone after they perceyued how both partes of the army coasted the hylles side, the one towardes the other, being such a multitude, so glittering in their harnesse, & marching in such aray, that the poore people at the first, were astonished therat.MarginaliaThe Angronians fall to prayer. Notwithstanding the assemble fel downe vpon their knees iij. or iiij. times crying Help vs, O Lord, beseching him to haue regard to þ^e glory of his holy name, to stay the effusiō of bloud, if it were his good pleasure, & to turne the harts of their enemies to the truth of his holy Gospell. These two partes of the army ioyned together, neare to the bulwarkes of the medow of Tour, & gaue the assault in three seueral places. One of the bands moūted secretly by the rockes, thinking to haue enclosed the people in their Bulwarkes. But as soone as they which kept the bulwarke below had espied thē, they forsooke their place, & marched strayt towards thē and as they marched, they met with the ayde which was sent vnto them, from the valley of Luserne, very luckily, and commyng (as it were) from heauen: which ioynyng together, soone discomfited their enemies with stones and harquebushes. They pursued them fiercely in the rockes, and vexed them woonderfully, because the rockes are so steepe, that no man can ascende or descende, without great paine and difficultie. The Captaine of this band was named Bastian of Vergil, a man very expert in the affayres of warre.MarginaliaThe proud threates of Amman. He at his going out of his lodging threatened that he would do great and terrible things that day. His hostes hearing that, said vnto hym, Monsieur, if our religiō 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 againe into his Inne, so wounded and so feeble, that he was not like to liue. Then sayde his hostesse to hym, Monsieur, it is now wel seene, that their religion is better then ours.

There was also an other band which kept the top of the hyl, to assault the bulwarkes, from thence. The myddlemost bulwarke was then assaulted, in the which were very few to defend þ^e same: which seeing the number of their enemies, retyred backe, leauyng therein but fiue onely to defend it. There was a huge rocke not farre from the foresaid bulwarke, behinde the same, a great number of the enemies were hyd. And anone there issued out two ensignes, assuring them selues to wynne the bulwarke: but immediately one of their ensigne bearers was wounded to death. Whereupon many reculed backe. The other set vp his ensigne vpon the Bulwarke.MarginaliaThe Bulwarke manfully defended. They which were within, had neither halbard, nor any other long weapon, but onely one Pike, and the same without an yron: the whiche one of the fiue tooke, and threwe dowe the ensigne, & manfully beat backe the scalers, and threwe them downe to the ground. Diuers of the enemies were entred into the bul warke, by a doore belowe, and slue one of the fiue, whiche kept the myddle part of the bulwarke. The other foure looked to be destroyed out of hand. Then one of the foure chased away those which had entred belowe, with stones: and the other three leauyng their handgunnes, defended thē selues likewise with great stones: and perceiuyng þ^e band whiche was on the rockes to flee, they tooke courage, and withstood their enemies valiauntly, tyll their companions were returned from the chase.

In the meane tyme, the Bulwarke which was vppon the side of the mountaine, was furiously assailed by the one halfe of the armye. Those that were within suffered their enemies to approche neare to the Bulwarke, without any gūshot or other defēce: wherat þ^e enemies much marueiled.MarginaliaBehold the Artillarye of this simple people, and with what weapons they fought. But whē they were euen at hand, they fel vpon them, some with throwing of stones, some with rolling downe mighty stones, and some with harquebushes. There was a huge stone rolled downe, which passed throughout the whole armie, & slue diuers. The souldiers at that tyme had wonne a litle cotage, neare to the said Bulwarke, which dyd much hurt to the poore men. But among them, one deuised to rol downe a great huge stone against þ^e cottage, which so shooke it, and amased the soldiers, that they thought they had ben al destroyed, and incontinent they fled, and neuer would enter into it againe.

Then the souldiers made certaine fences of wood, fiue foote long, three foote broade, and of the thicknesse of three bordes, but they wer so vexed with the shot of the harquebushes, that they were faine to lay al those fences aside. The myners also made others of earth for the souldiers. But al these policies of the enemies auayled them nothing: for the slaughter was so great, that in diuers places you might haue seene three lying dead one vpon an other. God so wrought with the poore Christians, that the shotte of two harquebushes slue foure men.MarginaliaThe Lord of Trinitie wyth hys armye, driuen backe. It was saide for a certaintie, that the shotte of an harquebushe came so neare the Lord of Trinities head, that it brake a wande whiche he bare in his hand, & made him to retyre sixe score pases backward, & seing his souldiers in such great nūbers murthered & wounded on euery side, he wept bytterly. Then he retyred the rest of his army. That day he thought assuredly to haue entred into the medowe of Tour. Moreouer he was determined, if that dayes iourney had not succeeded, to encampe therby, and the next morning very early, to renue the assault. Many Gentlemen and others came thyther, to see the discomfiture of the poore Waldoys: and likewise those of the Plaine looked for nothing, but to heare the pitious ruine and desolation of this poore people. But God disposed it otherwise: For the Lorde of Trinitie had much adoo to saue hym selfe & his: and seeing the mischiefe whiche they intended to do vnto others, was fallen now vpon their own heades,MarginaliaThe Papistes astonished and dismayde on euery side, by the wonderfull iudgmēt of God. they were wōderfully astonished. They of þ^e plaine also, when they sawe the number of the dead bodyes, & the wounded to be so great (for from noone vntyl the euening, they ceased not to cary thē away) were likewise exceedingly dismayed. Albeit they caryed not away all, for there were many that lay neare to the bulwarkes, which the people couered with winding sheetes, the next morning. The souldiers them selues confessed to them of the medow of Tour, that if they had pursued them. they had bene all slaine, they were so tyred and and cleane out of hart.

Many marueiled why the people dyd not folowe the armye, but especially the souldiers, seeing the great discomfiture which they had done, and that they had gotten suche vantage of them already. But this was done for two causes.MarginaliaGods people auoyde the sheding of bloud. The one was, because they had alredy determined not to folow the army being once retyred, to auoyde the effusion of bloud, meanyng onely to defend them selues. The other cause was, for that they were weary, and had spent al their munition: For many of them had shot of, about. xxx. tymes, and none of them, vnder twentie, spending great store both of pellets and haileshot. The rest of the armie retyred, crying with a loude voyce, God fighteth for them, and we doo them wrong.

The next day, one of the principal Captaines of the army, surrendred his charge to the L. of Trinitie, saying vnto hym, that he woulde neuer fight against this people any more, and vpon that he departed. It is a merueylous thing and worthy of perpetual memorie, that in that cōbat there were but two of the Waldoys slaine, and two hurt. Thorow þ^e whole countrey of Piemont, euery man sayd, God fighteth for them. One of the Captaynes confessed, that he had bene at many fierce assaultes and combates, and sundry battailes wel fought, but yet he neuer sawe souldiers so faynt harted and amased:MarginaliaGod fighteth for his people. yea the souldiours them selues told hym, they were so astonished, that they could not strike. Moreouer, they sayde, that this people neuer shotte, but they hurt or kylled some of the Souldiours.