The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-10-18
aerulng Star and Catholic Messenger.


HHW 0RLEA Ms, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10 tsi1.
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3he street preventing the main body from
xsking their share in the fight. But the Deans
exbortations and example could not long up
hold the fortune of the day; the French party
pressed forward with redoubed efforts upon
his van, and drove IL back in confusion upon
the rear.
All this had passed 80 rapidly that already
many had fallen, before Master Breydel, who,
with the mon of his guild stood ut the further
tead of the street, was aware of what was going
on at last movement ordered by Deconinck
opened the ranks, and showed him at once the
whole position of things. and the danger of the
Clothworkers. Muttor;ng some unintelligible
words be turped to his men, aud cried in "a loud
voice:
"Forwara, Butchers! forwardw
As if beside himself, he dashed onward
through the opening made by the Cloth
workers,-he and his men afLer him, against
the enemy. At the first blow his axe hi:
through beadplate and skull of horse; the
second laid the rider at his feet. Tho next
instant he strode over four corpses and so he
fought onward until he bimself received q
wound on his left arDr/ At the sight of his
ewn blood, be became as one possessed; with
q hasty glance at>the knight who had wounded
him, he cast aside his axe, and STOPPING
beneath the lance of his adversary, with head
long fury sprang upon the horse. and grappled
body to body with the rider, who, firmly as he
sat, could not resist the maddened force of
Breydel, and, falling from the saddle, rolled
with his assailant upon tho ground. While
tho Dean of the Butchers was thus occupied in
satiating his vengeance, his comrades and the
and the other ruiliamen had fell fIa
main body of the Lilyards, and had already
0ast many of them under their feet. Obsti-
nateIy was each inch of ground contested; men
and horses, dead and dying, lay piled in
heaps, and the pavement was red with blood.
Soon all effectual resistance on the part of
tho Liiyards was at an end they were driven
hack into the market place and the guildsmen
bning now at liberty to deploy, and avail
Shenselves of their superior numbers, 1t be-
oame evident that their object was to surround
their enemies, and that for this purpose they
were extending their right wing towards the
egg-market Upon this the knights, seeing
themselves defeated. turned their horses, and
ned from the destruction that awited thom,-
tho Batchers and Clothworkers followed them
With shouts of triumph, but without much
effect; for, we'll mounted as they all were,
they were soon hey ond the reach of pursuit.
BY this time the sound of the trumpets and
thc tumult of tho battle had given the alarm
throughout the city; all its inhabitants were
in motion, and thousands of armed burghers
Sled the streets, hurrying to the aid of their
brethren. The victory, however, WAS already
Won the Lilyards had retreated to the castle
and wero blockaded on every side by the
Guildsmon.
While these things were proceeding in the
market. place, the governor: general, De Cha
tilion, presented himself before the town with
i've hundred French msn-at.arms He had
foreseen that he should fnd the gates closed,
according to the old custom of the men of
Bruges in such cases, and was therefore we'll
provided for that event. His brother, Guy do
81. Pol, wss ordered to follow close upon him,
with . numerous body of infantry, and all the
engines necessary for storming the place.
While waiting for this reinforcement he was
already planning his assault, and looking ont
Eor the weak points of the Notifications. AL
though he saw but few people upon the ram
parts, he did not deem it expedient to make
his attack with his mon at arms alone. know
ing ne he did the indomitable spirit of the
men of Bruges. Half an hour after his arrival
Bt Pol, with his division, appeared in the dis.
tanoe, the points of their spears and tho blades
of their halberds glancing from afar in tt o
sun's early rays, while an impenetrable cloud
OF dust indicated the progress of the machines
wish the horses that drew them.
The small number of tho citizens who were
IN charge of tho walls watched the approach
Of their numerous assailants with fear and
trembling. As they saw tho heavy battering
machines brought up, the hearts of all were
hlied with the saddest forebodiugs,, and the
0nwelcome tidings speedily circulated through
ous the whole city. The armed GuiIdsmen
Werc still posted about the castle, where the
intolligence of this new force disturbed them
IN their operations. Leaving, therefore, q suf.
Aoient detachment to continue the block ade of
3ho Lilyards, tho main body hastcned to the
walls to meet the danger that now threatened
them in that quarter. 1t was not without
deep anxiety for the fate of thoir beloved
Bruges that they perceived the French soldiers