The chevalier Blanc was grievously wounded by a lance in the last battle, so that he was constrained to retire into the city of Angasta, where he died. God have mercy on his soul! he being well deserving thereof. In like manner was the Turk severely wounded, and forced to withdraw to Constantinople, where he remained for a long time very ill. These three persons having been interrogated by the chronicler of France on their oaths, how they knew what they had told to be true, deposed, that they had been personally present in arms at all these battles and sieges, and had fought at them, and, in consideration of the very great perils they had escaped from, had vowed to make pilgrimages to the shrine of St Denis, and to other places, which they intended to fulfil before they returned to their own country. They appeared to be well affected to the Christian faith. They said, that the Turk, when recovered, left Constantinople for Asia. On Saturday, the 4th day of December in this year, and about three hours before day, such an earthquake happened at Naples, in Puglia, and Calabria, as the oldest persons did not remember to have seen, from which great and numberless evils ensued,--a few of which shall be mentioned. In the first place, the small city of Ariano[199], in the kingdom of Naples, was so completely destroyed that eight thousand persons perished. Another city called Padula[200] was destroyed, with its three thousand inhabitants, for not one escaped. Item, another town, called Bouchery[201], was overwhelmed,--and no one who had not seen these places before this unfortunate event would have supposed they could have existed, so thoroughly changed was the whole face of the country. One half of the town of Troia[202] was thrown down, and many people perished. The greater part of the castle of Canosa[203] fell, with some of the town. The cities of Ascoli[204] and Santa Agatha[205] shared the same fate, as did the castle of Arpi[206] and several others. In the country of Molise[207], the cities of Campo Basso[208], Laurentino[209], the castle of St Julian[210], Macona[211], the castles of St Lou[212], Castine[213], and La Rippe[214], were swallowed up by the earthquake, and many lands near to Altavilla[215], when upwards of twenty-eight thousand persons perished. The city of Naples suffered some damage, but more in the churches than in the other buildings. The earthquake lasted for three days, and in some places more, namely, from the 4th of the month until the 7th inclusive; when, as reported by men of truth, more than one hundred thousand persons of both sexes were destroyed.