[1] [2] The Frenchmen notwithstanding this siege, va|liantlie defended their wals, and sometimes made issues foorth, but small to their gaine: and still the Englishmen with their guns and great ordinance made batterie to the wals and bulworks. The win|ter season was verie cold, with sharpe frosts, & hard weather; but the Englishmen made such shift for prouision of all things necessarie to serue their turns, that they were sufficientlie prouided, both against hunger and cold: so that in the end, Thom. Wals. Sir Iohn Oldcastell taken. the Frenchmen perceiuing they could not long indure against them, offered to talke, and agreed to giue ouer the towne, if no rescue came by a certeine daie appointed. A|bout the same season was sir Iohn Oldcastell, lord Cobham taken, in the countrie of Powes land, in the borders of Wales, within a lordship belonging to the lord Powes, not without danger and hurts of some that were at the taking of him: for they could not take him, till he was wounded himselfe.