[1] The prince hauing aduertisments heere, that his enimies were assembled, and followed him, he tur|ned backe to meet them, but they had no will to abide him: for although the earle of Armignac, the consta|ble of France, the marshall Cleremont, and the prince of Orange, with diuerse other néere to Tho|louse, made some shew to impeach the prince his pas|sage, yet in the end they withdrew, not without some losse, for the lord Bartholomew de Burwasch alias Burghersch, sir Iohn Chandois, the lord Iames Audeley, and sir Thomas Felton, being sent foorth to view them, skirmished with two hundred of their men of armes, and tooke of them fiue and thirtie. Af|ter this, they had no mind to abide the English pow|er, but still shranke awaie, as the prince was readie to follow them, and so he perceiuing that the French|men would not giue him battell, he withdrew to|wards Burdeaux, after he had spent eight weekes in that his iournie, and so comming thither, he winte|tered there, whilest his capteins in the meane time tooke diuerse townes and castels abroad in the coun|trie. ¶And now to the end yee may haue more plaine [page 384] information of the princes dooings in those parties, I haue thought good to make you partakers of a let|ter or two, written by sir Iohn Winkefield knight, attendant on the prince there in Gascoigne.