When the English had remained for about ten days in Lihons, ransoming and despoiling the country as I have said, they marched back to Normandy, without meeting with any opposition worth mentioning, carrying with them much plunder, and hostages for payment of the composition-money. On repassing Folleville, they reinforced the garrison with a strong body of men.
During the stay of the English in Santois, and when they were quartered in Lihons, those attached to, and dependant on, sir John de Luxembourg went backward and forward, and had much communication with them, to the great astonishment of the count d'Estampes, who as well as the other lords with him were not very well pleased,—but they could not prevent it at that time. On the departure of the English for Normandy, the men at arms who had obeyed the summons of the count d'Estampes began to retire, each to the place he had come from.
FOOTNOTES:
[47] Santois,—a small fruitful country of Picardy, to the south of the Somme and Peronne. Mondidier is the capital.—Gazetteer.
[48] Folleville,—a village in Picardy, election of Mondidier.—Gazetteer.
[49] Montrieul. This must be a mistake, for Montrieul is not on the Somme, and is quite out of their line of march.
[50] Lihons,—a town in Picardy, near Peronne.—Gazetteer.
[51] Harbonnieres,—a town in Picardy, near Corbie.—Gazetteer.
[52] Saluts,—old french crowns, of the value of five shillings sterling.—Cotgrave.