[1] After that the towne was thus woone, the lord Montainie, capteine of the castell, would not yéeld, but made semblance,The capteine of the castell held out. as though he meant to defend the place, to the vtterance: but after that he was sharplie called vpon by king Henrie, either to yéeld it, or else that he should be assured to haue all mercie and fauour sequestred from him, he tooke better ad|uise, and therevpon being in despaire of reléefe, made this composition, that if he were not rescued of the French power by a certeine daie, he should render the fortresse into the kings hands, with condition, that he and his souldiers should be suffered to depart with all their goods, the habiliments of warre onelie excepted. Herevpon twelue hostages were deliuered to the king, and when the daie came, being the twen|tith of September, Titus Liuius. Caen castell yéelded. they within rendred the castell in|to the kings hands; and thus, both the towne and ca|stell of Caen became English.