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the prisoners entered the castle, the seventeenth day of 

 July, 1553. They took prisoners MM. le Due de Bouillon, le 

 Marquis de Villars, de Roze, le Baron de Culan, M. du 

 Pont, commissary of the artillery, and M. de Martigues ; and 

 me with him, because he asked them; and all the gentle- 

 men who they knew could pay ransom, and most of the 

 soldiers and the leaders of companies; so many and such 

 prisoners as they wished. And then the Spanish soldiers 

 entered by the breach, unresisted; our men thought they 

 would keep their faith and agreement that all lives should 

 be spared. They entered the town in a fury to kill, plunder, 

 and ravage everything : they took a few men, hoping to have 

 ransom for them. ... If they saw they could not 

 get it, they cruelly put them to death in cold blood. . . . 

 And they killed them all with daggers, and cut their throats. 

 Such was their great cruelty and treachery; let him trust 

 them who will. 



To return to my story: when I was taken from the 

 castle into the town, with M. de Martigues, there was one 

 of M. de Savoie's gentlemen, who asked me if M. de 

 Martigues's wound could be cured. I told him no, that it 

 was incurable: and off he went to tell M. le Due de Savoie. 

 I bethought myself they would send physicians and surgeons 

 to dress M. de Martigues; and I argued within myself if I 

 ought to play the simpleton, and not let myself be known for 

 a surgeon, lest they should keep me to dress their wounded, 

 and in the end I should be found to be the King's surgeon, 

 and they would make me pay a big ransom. On the other 

 hand, I feared, if I did not show I was a surgeon and had 

 dressed M. de Martigues skilfully, they would cut my throat. 

 Forthwith I made up my mind to show them he would not 

 die for want of having been well dressed and nursed. 



Soon after, sure enough, there came many gentlemen, 

 with the Emperor's physician, and his surgeon, and those 

 belonging to M. de Savoie, and six other surgeons of his 

 army, to see M. de Martigues's wound, and to know of me 

 how I had dressed and treated it. The Emperor's physician 

 bade me declare the essential nature of the wound, and 

 what I had done for it. And all his assistants kept their 

 ears wide open, to know if the wound were or were not 



