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A like surprize, but of later date, I read in Popeliniere
[2. Vol. Lib. 31.], touching the like named and seated mount,
in Normandy.
During the last Cornish commotion, diuers Gent. with their wiues
and families, fled to the protection of this place, where the
Rebels besieged them, first wynning the plaine at the hils foote,
by assault, when the water was out, and then; the euen ground on
the top, by carrying vp great trusses of hay before them, to blench
the defendants sight, and dead their shot. After which, they could
make but slender resistance: for no sooner should any one within,
peepe out his head, ouer those inflanked wals, but he became an open
marke to a whole showre of arrowes. This disaduantage, together with
the womens dismay, & decrease of victuals, forced a surrender to
those Rakehels mercy, who, nothing guilty of that effeminate vertue,
spoyled their goods, imprisoned their bodies, and were rather by
Gods gracious prouidence, then any want of will, purpose, or attempt,
restrayned from murdering the principall persons.
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