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HA YES OF TWEEDDALE. 7
firmum expugnandum suscipit. Post paucorum dierum obsidionem, Haius
qui loco praeerat, cum se arbitrio Andeloti dedisset cum suis omnibus truce-
datus est, recenti adhuc Mirabellensis caedis sensu. It. lib. 45, ad annum
1569, page 383, torn. 2. Parte altera, Johannes Haius Pictavii urbis
Praetor, homo impiger et supra sortem ambitiosus, quod illi tandem ex-
itium attulit. Sex urbanorum peditum cohortibus praafuit, dum urbs a
Guisio teneretur ad versus protestantes. Is dictim earn obsidionem de-
scripsit, et postea sub alieno nomine publicandam curavit, anno 1569.
In his 216 page, there is ane Epitaph of one Renatus de La Haye in 20
verse. Renati Haie Bordelerii, centurionis e Ludoei comitis cohorte, qui
in arce Lusigniaci, quam perduelles insidiis et proditione legati et signi-
feri Guronis, praefecti arcis caeperunt, recuperanda sulphurei pulveris ig-
niti flammis tota facie, et altera manu semiustulatus, et dum hostes aditu
posticae arcis januae prohibet, saxi mole, e summa turri obtritus, concusso
et fracto craneo, decimo quinto die post receptam arcem, obiit, mense
Februario 1569- The same Thuanus, speaking of him, page 386, says,
ejus cura provisum, ut sauciati diligenter curarentur, praater chirurgos
faeminis summa sedulitate ac humanitate, medicamenta et omnia ad agro-
torum curationem et victum necessaria expedientibus. This John de La
Haye was Baron de Coutaulx in Poictu, advocat, and afterwards Live-
tenant-General of the Seneschaulce of Poictu, he desigii'd to be either
president of that country, or to cause suppress the employment ; but he
was opposed by the Comte of Lude and the Sieur de La Nowe, who com-
manded the Hugonets. He espoused La Dame du La Roussiere-Girarde,
and apply 1 d himself mutch to the reading of manuscripts, and compos'd the
Memoirs or Recherches de La France, et de La Gaule Aquitanie, which
were printed 1581 by Jean Parant, Rue Saint Jacques. They were found
in a sack of leather by a craftsman called Le Provensal, while he was
besieged by the citizens of Poitiers in his house, nam'd de la Begaudiere,
a league distant from the city, there he was killed and carried to Poitiers,
where a scholar of that place drew them out of the hands of the trades-

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