AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1522. 



and out of the bulwarks of Auvergne and Spaine, skir- 

 mished them so well, that there abode as many at that 

 assault as at the other of England, well neere to the 

 number of 5000. And they withdrew themselves with 

 their great losse and confusion, which was the third 

 time that they were chased and overcome : thanked be 

 our Lord, which gave us the force and power so to 

 doe, for they were by estimation a hundred against 

 one. 



Also the 22 day of the same moneth of September 

 they fired a mine betweene Italy and Provence, which 

 did no harme. 



Of the terrible mine at the posterne of 

 Auvergne. 



ANd the 23 day of the same moneth they fired two 

 mines, one at the posterne of Spaine, and the other 

 by the bulwarke of Auvergne, the which mine by 

 Auvergne was so terrible, that it made all the towne to 

 shake, and made the wall to open from above to beneath 

 unto the plaine ground : howbeit, it fell not, for the 

 mine had vent or breath in two places, by one of the 

 countermines, and by a rocke under the Barbican, the 

 which did cleave, and by that cleft the fury and might 

 of the mine had issue. And if the sayd two vents had 

 not bene, the wall had bene turned upside downe. 

 And for truth, as it was reported to us out of the 

 campe, the enemies had great hope in the sayd mine, 

 thinking that the wall should have bene overthrowen, 

 and then they might have entred into the towne at their 

 pleasures : but when they saw the contrary, they were 

 very ill pleased. And the captaines determined to give 

 assault at foure places at once, to make us the more 

 adoo, and to have an entrance into the towne by one 

 of the foure. And the sayd day and night they ceased 

 not to shoot artillery : and there came in hope of the 

 mine threescore thousand men and moe into the 

 trenches. 



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