[1] [2] Upon Cene thursdaie, the castell de Lesparre was deliuered vnto the earle of Lancaster,The castell of Lespar deliue+red vnto him. Nic. Triuet. and after that diuers other castels. At his approching néere vnto Burdeaux, vpon the thursdaie in Easter weeke, as he rested to refresh himselfe and his armie in a little village called Kekell, an armie of French men issu|ing out of Burdeaux, ment to come on the English|men at vnwares: but hauing warning, they pre|pared themselues to battell, so well as the shortnes of time would permit, and so therevpon incountring with their enimies, and fighting a sore battell, at length constreined the French men to returne vnto the citie,The French|men forced to retire. and pursuing them as they fled, two En|glish knights being brethren to sir Peter de Mallow and an other that was a Gascoine, entred the citie with two standard-bearers belonging to the earle of Richmond, & to the lord Alane de la Zouch, whom the Frenchmen tooke, closing them within the gates. The other Englishmen being shut out, first fell to the spoile of the suburbs, and then set fire vpon the same. After this were certeine of the citizens that secret|lie were at a point with the earle of Lancaster, Polydor. to haue deliuered the citie into his hands, but their practise being espied, they were taken and executed yer they could performe that which they had promi|sed.