[1] [2] The prince being thus accompanied with these worthie capteins and men of armes, to the number of twelue hundred, beside a thousand archers and o|ther footmen, indeuored by all waies he could deuise to indamage them within. In the end he caused the walles to be vndermined,Limoges ta|ken by [...]orce. and quite reuersed into the ditch, & then giuing assault, entered by the breach, and made an huge slaughter of them within, in so|much that of men, women, and children (for none were spared in respect of age or sex) there were slaine and beheaded that daie aboue thrée thousand. The bi|shop with certeine knights and capteins were taken and had their liues granted, though the bishop was in great danger to haue lost his head, bicause he was a cheefe dooer in yéelding the citie before vnto the Frenchmen.