Richard Coeur de Lion rebuilt and fortified it, only to be again ravaged and pillaged by the party of Montford, and, under the Black Prince, it was taken and retaken.

Henry IV.

besieged it, and, in 1814, the town of Marmande had to sustain its last attack.

It has a good port, and, apparently, some pretty public walks, and is about half-way between Bordeaux and Agen.
Caumont appears next, once not only famous for its castle, but its tyrannical lord; who, in the time of Louis XIII., was governor of this part of the river, and carried on a system of oppression which became unbearable.

He cast an iron chain across the river, to prevent the passing of vessels, on which he laid his hands in the most unpitying manner, taking possession of all he could meet with.