The field was fought with great obstinacy on both sides; and the action was distinguished by this singular event, that Conde and Montmorency, the commanders of the opposite armies, fell both of them prisoners into the hands of their enemies.

The appearances of victory remained with Guise, but the admiral, whose fate it ever was to be defeated, and still to rise more terrible after his misfortunes, collected the remains of the army; and inspiring his own unconquerable courage and constancy into every breast, kept them in a body, and subdued some considerable places in Normandy.

Elizabeth, the better to support his cause, sent him a new supply of a hundred thousand crowns; and offered, if he could find merchants to lend him the money, to give her bond for another sum of equal amount.[**] * Forbes, vol.ii.p.

320.

Davila, lib.