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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 At the verie same time that Campeigne was be|sieged (as before is said) sir Iohn of Lutzenburgh, with eight other gentlemen, chanced to be néere vnto the lodging of the said lord Bawdo, where they espi|ed the Frenchmen, which began to cut downe tents, ouerthrow pauilions, & kill men in their beds: wher|vpon they with all speed assembled a great number of men, as well English as Burgognions, and cou|ragiouslie set on the Frenchmen, and in the end beat them backe into the towne, so that they fled so fast that one letted another, as they would haue entered. In the chase and pursute was the Pusell taken,Ione the Pu|sell taken. with diuerse other, besides those that were slaine, which were no small number. Diuerse were hurt also on both parts. Among the Englishmen, sir Iohn Mont|gomerie had his arme broken, and sir Iohn Ste|ward was shot into the thigh with a quarell.

W. P. [As before ye haue heard somewhat of this dam|sels strange beginning and proceedings, 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, Chroniques de Britaigne. Guillaume de Flauie the capteine hauing sold hir aforehand to the lord of Lut|zenburgh, 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 con|flict 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 see hir, vnto them (quod she)

Good children and my déere freends, I tell you plaine one hath sold me. I am betraied and short|lie 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.

Saith another booke, she was intrapt by a Picard capteine of Soissons, Le Rosier. 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 cap|teins 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 Pi|card 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,

In lavie [...] Charles sep|tiesme.

Fiue thou|sand pound [...] frẽch crowns in monie.

An hundreth and fiftie crownes ren [...].

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 Tur|nois) sold into the English hands.

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