Vol. III. (of XXI.) 6/12 to keep them, cost what it might. How Guise defended, with all the Chivalry of France; and Kaiser Karl besieged, [19th October, 1552, and onwards.] with an Army of 100,000 men, under Duke Alba for chief captain. Siege protracted into midwinter; and the "sound of his cannon heard at Strasburg," which is eighty miles off, "in the winter nights." [Kohler, _Reichs-Historie,_ p. 453;--and more especially _Munzbelustigungen_ (Nurnberg, 1729-1750), ix. |