Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the FiftHolinshed, Raphael
History
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the Fift
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
[As before ye haue heard somewhat of this damsels strange beginning
and procéedings, so sith the ending of all such miraclemongers dooth
(for the most part) plainelie decipher the vertue and power that they
worke, by hir shall ye be aduertised what at last became of hir; cast
your opinions as ye haue cause. Of hir louers (the Frenchmen) reporteth
one, how in Campeigne thus besieged, Guillamne de Flauie the capteine
hauing sold hir aforehand to the lord of Lutzenburgh, vnder colour of
hasting hir with a band out of the towne towards their king, for him
with spéed to come and leauie the siege there, so gotten hir foorth
he shut the gates after hir, when anon by the Burgognians set vpon
and ouermatcht in the conflict she was taken: marie yet (all things
accounted) to no small maruell how it could come so to passe, had she
béene of any deuotion or of true beléefe, and no false miscreant,
but all holie as she made it. For earlie that morning she gat hir to
saint Iameses church, confessed hir, and receiued hir maker (as the
booke termes it) and after setting hir selfe to a piller, manie of the
townesmen that with a fiue or six score of their children stood about
there to sée hir, vnto them "(quod she) Good children and my déere
fréends, I tell you plaine one hath sold me. I am betraied and shortlie
shall be deliuered to death; I beséech you praie to God for me, for I
shall neuer haue more power to doo seruice either to the king or to the
realme of France againe."
[Sidenote: _Le Rosier._]
[Sidenote: _In la vie du Charles septiesme._]
[Sidenote: Fiue thousand pounds fr[=e]ch crowns in monie.]
[Sidenote: An hundred and fiftie crownes rent.]
Saith another booke, she was intrapt by a Picard capteine of Soissons,
who sold that citie to the duke of Burgognie, and he then put it ouer
into the hands of the lord of Lutzenburgh, so by that meanes the
Burgognians approched and besieged Campeigne, for succour whereof
as damsell Ione with hir capteins from Laignie was thither come,
and dailie to the English gaue manie a hot skirmish, so happened it
one a daie in an outsallie that she made by a Picard of the lord of
Lutzenburghs band, in the fiercest of hir fight she was taken, and by
him by and by to his lord presented, who sold hir ouer againe to the
English, who for witchcraft and sorcerie burnt hir at Rone. Tillet
telleth it thus, that she was caught at Campeigne by one of the earle
of Ligneis soldiers, from him had to Beaureuoir castell, where kept a
thrée months, she was after for ten thousand pounds in monie and thrée
hundred pounds rent (all Turnois) sold into the English hands.
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