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reſolution, hauing firſt diſcouered thoſe which did retire. At the laſt then they purſued them with their light horſemen, being led by the Lord Baron de Abain, and Bors la Vigne, which ſought all meanes to know their enemies forces, to take their aduauntage in the battaile, to which they were ſo lately bent. But being hindered by the often skirmiges they had with them, as they followed, and the place where the Vicount was, vnknowen vnto them, the Lordes de Sallerin, and d’Abain, reſolued to march to the right ſide of the Tower de Oyzay, being a verie high place, where they might beſte deſcrie their enemies forces, whereof as yet they were vncertaine.

And in the meane time the Lord Preaux, (who as he had heard was his great friend, and was comming along the Riuer of Vienna, with one hundred and fiftie, or two hundred footmen, and fortie horſmen, being as well of the high tower, as of the garriſon) might ioyne with him in the plain neere the riuer by them. The Lord de Sallerin leauing his companie, went to find the L. d’Abain, & Bois la Vigne, who were gone with 12. or 15. horſe, to deſcrie the order and force of the enemies, which they did ſo effectually, as it came to ſuch euent as they looked for, andthere-