S79^ Ufe'of'j6hn earl of Buchan, 7 



tjie Englifh, and, after a long and obstinate conflict, 

 gaining a decisive victory, before the main body of 

 their army was brought up by Saliibury. 



The duke of Clarence was killed in the beginning 

 qf the engagement, as it is said, by Buchan himself 

 ■who stunned and unhorsed him by a blow of his 

 mace. 



Others, with appearance of truth, afsert that 'Buchan 

 only struck and unhorsed the duke, and that he was 

 killed by the laird of Swinton *. The earl of Kent, 

 and the lords Rous and Grey, were among the slain.; 

 the earls pf Huntingdon and Somerset, and the count 

 de la Perche, were made prisoners. The whole lofs 

 pf the Englifti is estimated, by contemporary writers, 

 ^t three thousand, and on the side of the dauphin at 

 eleven hundred. 



-Notwithstanding this advantage, Buchan drd not 

 attack the reserve under the earl of Salifbury, being 

 afraid, in the present situation of the dauphin's af- 

 fairs, of hazarding a check which might lefsen the ef- 

 fect of so important a viftory ; and therefore he pru- 

 dently led his army to overawe the provinces that 

 might otherwise afford militia to strengthen the army 

 of the enemy. He accordingly made himself master 

 of several considerable places, and invested the for- 

 trefs of Alen^on, to the relief of which the earl of 

 Salifbury came up, but thought it not proper to at- 

 tack Buchan when -liis troops were flufhed with vic- 

 ,tory. and pofsefsed of a favourable situation for 

 •battle. 



• Ancestor of ihc worthy and respectable lord Swinton, one of the 

 ;kn:ds of S'.-fsion in Scc:linJ. 



