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 the iuſt iudgement of God vpon theſe miſerable Leaguers, who hauing made ſuch ruine of good men, receiued from God the guerdon of their periurie, and the chaſtiſement which they had merited, and iuſtly deſerued.

The Vicont himſelfe being knowen, of one of his owne friends was taken priſoner, who tooke him out of the water, and carried him on a mare vnto the foreſaid Chaſtelleraut.

In this ouerthrowe the ſixte of February there were ſlaine and drowned more then fiue hundred men. Amongſt the which, at the leaſt were foureſcore Gentlemen and Captnes, and by report of the Trumpetter, the peſaunts and women which came from Poictiers to ſearch the dead, did finde, that of eight hundred men which wente from thence, there returned but fiftie, the reſt being dead, or taken.

This worke of God is admirable, and not to be prayſed ſufficiently, that the enemies had three for one, and yet we had not one man either ſlaine, or wounded vnto the death: only foure or fiue Souldiers are lightly hurt, and thoſe that are moſt dangerouſlie wounded, may be healed in twelue dais, and of ours were three horſe ſlaine.