History of the house and race of Douglas and Angus

HOUSE OF DOUGLAS. I37
to have surprised the enemy, carrying a fair coronet of gold on
his head, and very magnificently apparelled, as if he had been
riu'ing in triumph.
There was a village called little Bauge, through which the
Duke was to come, where a few Frenchmen of the Dauphin's
side lay. These being terrified with the sudden coming
of the English, got up into a steeple far safety and sanctuary:
there while they make a halt and assault the steeple, the cry
riseth, and the noise of their approach was carried to the rest
of the army, who presently ran and took arms. While they
were arming themselves, Buchanand Wigtonsent thirty archers
to keep a certain bridge, by which it behoved the enemy to pass
over a brook which ran in the way. These went as they were
commanded; and as they weregoim;, Hugh Kennedy came out
of a church where he lay with an hundred men, but unarmed,
or half armed, by reason of the great haste, and joined with
them: while they defended and made good the bridge, and kept
off the horsemen with shot of arrows, the Duke, with the princi-
pal of his company alighted from their horse, and made such an
onset upon them, that they were forced to leave the bridge and
passage open for the enemy. Being past the bridge, while
the Duke mounteth again on horseback, and the rest of his
folks are passing after him, Buchan and Wigton came upon
him with two hundred horse, and enter there into a sharp
conflict on both sides, both parties being most part noble-?
men, who were desirous of glory, and had a mind to give a.
proof of themselves with equal courage and hatred. The
Scots were glad to have occasion to show the French what
they could do; and to confute their whisperings and surmis 7
es, wherein they reproached them, as fit only to. consume
victuals, and the English were moved with great indignation,
that they should be thus perpetually troubled by the Scots,
not only at home, but also abroad beyond the sea in a foreign
country.
And none among the English fcught with a greater
courage and resolution than the Duke himself: but Sir John,
Sainton espying him, being easily known by his coronet