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, and the pieces brought to their places, his Maieſtie himſelfe hauing paſſed whole nights therein, vppon the ſecond day of September, began to beat certaine defences of the wall of the ſaid Towne. Immediatelie after the firſt vollies of the Cannon, that braue ſpeach which they had giuen at the ſummoning of the Towne, was turned quite contrarie into ſubmiſsion. So that Boiſdauphin and his people not imagining that they ſhould haue been ſo ſharplie delt withall (for within three houres they ſhoulde haue had aſſault giuen them, which they were not wel reſolued to abide) demaunded a Parley; and in fine before two of the clocke in the afternoone, the ſaide Towne was yeelded vnto his Maieſtie: notwithſtanding that there were in it no more than an hundred gentlemen, and twentie enſignes of footemen, who during the time of the Parley, did diſhonour each other publiquely. The Gentlemen ſaid, that the Souldiers would not fight, and the Souldiers ſaid, that agaynſt their wills the Gentlemen would compound. As in truth it was a thing verie ſtrange, hauing cauſed the people to ſpend more than 5000. crownes in the fortefying of the Suburbs of their Townes, burnt more than a 100000. crownes worth of houſing, and (as it is ſaid) ruined the Countrey ſix times as much more, for to abide three vollyes of the Cannon, and afterward to yeeld the Towne: which without the great care that his Maieſtie had had of it, had neuer beene kept from pillage: but hee commaunded the gates to be kept ſhut. And to the intent that none ſhould take occaſion to go into it, he would not lodge in it himſelfe, but kept in the ſuburbes where he firſt was