James Carrier, his clerk, was confined at the same time with him, but in a separate prison, for having been an accomplice in the crimes of his master,--and for having erased numerous articles in the account of receipts, through the instigation of the enemy of mankind, and converted many sums from the king's profit to his own; for all of which, he would have suffered the sentence due to such capital crimes, had not the king's mercy been extended also to him. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 106: Salades,--light helmets or head-pieces.] [Footnote 107: Brigandine,--armour consisting of many-jointed and scale-like plates, very pliant and easy for the body.] [Footnote 108: Haubergeon,--a little coat of mail, or only sleeves and gorget of mail.] [Footnote 109: Conigan. Q. Cuningham? commander of the scots auxiliaries.] [Footnote 110: Ribaudequins,--huge cross-bows, fourteen feet in length. Veuglaires, serpentines and crapaudines,--different sorts of fire arms, greater or less.] [Footnote 111: Bergerac,--seven leagues from Perigueux.] [Footnote 112: Jansac. Gensac. Several villages in Gascony of that name.] [Footnote 113: Chalais,--a town in Perigord, near La Grolle.] CHAP. XXIV. THE LORD D'ORVAL DEFEATS THE MEN OF BORDEAUX.--DUKE PETER OF BRITTANY DOES HOMAGE TO THE KING OF FRANCE.--THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY ATTEMPTS TO LAY A TAX ON SALT THROUGHOUT FLANDERS. On the last day of October in this year, the lord d'Orval, third son to the lord d'Albreth, set out from Bazas[114] with his companions, and from four to five hundred combatants, to invade the peninsula of Medoc[115]; and they halted for the night, to refresh themselves, in a forest within two leagues of Bordeaux. On the morrow, All-saints-day, they were early mounted, thinking to enter the peninsula, when they received information from Bordeaux, that from eight to nine thousand persons, on horseback and on foot, as well soldiers as others, were on their march to combat them. The lord d'Orval did not for this abandon his enterprise, but drew up his men in order of battle, although so greatly inferior in numbers to the English, who were under the command of the mayor of Bordeaux. His light troops showed a good countenance, advancing in battle-array, and made prisoner a gentleman from Bordeaux, near to a coppice. The battle now commenced, and was so well fought by the French that eighteen hundred English and Bordelois were slain on the spot or in the pursuit. The first runaway was the mayor, who, being on horseback, abandoned his van, who were on foot, and whom he had advanced as a frontier to his main division. The French made twelve hundred prisoners, which was very honourable and profitable to them, considering how few they were in comparison with their enemies. At the conclusion of this business, the lord d'Orval marched his men back, with their prisoners, to Bazas, much rejoiced at their good success.