| At this period, some of king Charles's captains guarding the frontier near Rhiems assembled about four hundred combatants to make an inroad towards Rethel, and other parts attached to the duke of Burgundy, - and in fact collected a great number of peasants, cows, horses and other plunder, which they proposed to carry back with them in safety to their garrisons. The chief of this expidition was Yvon du Pays. News of it, however, came to the bastard de Humieres, governer of Herqueary, who instantly called out his men-at-arms and pursued the French so rapidly that he overtook them, and a combat ensued, in which these marauders were completely defeated, leaving forty dead on the field, the rest saving themselves by flight in the best manner they could. On the part of the bastard, his loss did not amount to more than ten men. |