[1] [2] [3] [4] In the meane time, the earle laid siege to Blaues,Blaues. but could not win it. His men rode abroad into the countrie, to Mortaigne, Mirabeau, and Aunay, but wan little, and so returned againe to the siege of [page 369] Blaues. Now when the month was expired, that they of Angolesme should yéeld, the earle sent his two marshals thither, who receiued the homage and feal|tie of the citizens, in the king of Englands name, and so they were in peace, and receiued againe their ho|stages. At length when the earle of Derbie saw that he did but lose his time in the besieging of Blaues, which sir Guischart Dangle, and sir Guilliaume de Rochfort, being capteins within, did so valiantlie de|fend, that he could obteine no aduantage of them, he raised his siege, and returned vnto Burdeaux, hauing furnished such townes as he had woone in that iour|nie with conuenient garisons of men to defend them against the enimies, and to kéepe frontier warre, as they should sée cause.