eight thousand of their countrymen, who were serving in it not, like themselves, as adventurers, but under the flags and with the authorization of their cantons, separated from the Germans and withdrew, after receiving from Henry III.

four hundred thousand crowns as the price of their withdrawal.

In Burgundy, in Champagne, and in Orleanness, the campaign terminated to the honor of Guise, which Henry III.

was far from regarding as a victory for himself.
But almost at the same time at which the League obtained this success in the provinces of the east and centre, it experienced in those of the south-west a reverse more serious for the Leaguers than the Duke of Guise's victory had been fortunate for them.

Henry III.