which strook such a fright into Doria and his Forces, that they presently lest the place, and Captain Martin Corseque, delivered it at the first summons. The City of Novy which is very large, sent at the same time, to the Constable to assure him they would open their Gates; and accordingly he seized on it, and then turn∣ing towards Gavy, he defeated in his march five Companies of Neopolitans, whom the Spaniards had sent to secure the place, and shortly after the Duke of Savoy joyn∣ed with him to incounter with six thousand men part being of Collonel Gasees, some Modenois, and other some Parmesans, who pretended to defend the Town. But they soon cut one party of them in peeces near Ottage, in a fight which lasted neer two hours, and then falling upon four Squadrons of Horse, not far off the same place, they routed them with such good success, that they took the Town and Castle of Ottage with three and twenty Colours, killed above two hundred Neapolitans and Genoveses upon the place, took above a thousand Prisoners, and amongst them the chief Commanders. Upon this defeat, they concluded to make themselves Master of Gavy, which was absolutely necessary for their marching up to Genoa. The Castle is built on a Rock, and the Town well fortified; insomuch that many were of opinion, it would be a hard task to take it, seeing too that Barbarossa in the expedi∣tion which he made in the time of Francis the first, into the River of Genoa, could not take it in. But the Constables courage, which was not used to stoop under any Fear, did not forbear to make his approaches upon the Town. He who command∣ed it, made a Sally, with about three hundred men, of which two hundred were slain in the place, which so terrified those of the Town, that they sent an assurance that they would open their Gates; provided they might be protected from being Plundered and maintained in their ancient Priviledges, which was granted to them; and the Constable being got into the Town, began to besiege the Castle. At the first, the Governour pretended a Resolution to defend it, discharging several shot into the Town, beleeving that the Castle could not be battered, and supposing there were not any points of Rocks, upon which any Cannon could be mounted to com∣mand it; but the Constable soon let him see that there was not any thing impossi∣ble to the courage of the French; for in a few days he had raised a Battery upon cer∣tain Rocks, which did so awe him, that he was forced to surrender upon Composi∣tion on the last of April. Some Spanish Relations say, that the Governour was rather frighted with Pistol shot, then forced by the Cannon to surrender; but their anger was at the Constable, who had made himself Master of the place. After these happy exploits, the Prince of Piedmont took ten thousand men of the Army, to go force the Passages of the Mountain Griego, where the Genoveses were intrenched, and to make way for the Siege of Savonne. He presently forced their Trenches, so that he had full Liberty to march as far as Pleve a Town scituated in the Mountains, defended with a good Castle, and several small Forts, his courage made him resolve to carry it by assault, after he had taken in those little Forts, though it seemed capa∣ble of holding out a longer Siege, which was executed with so much resolution and good successe, that the place was won in an instant, the besieged yeelding them∣selves (as soon as they found the Gates and Walls were already secured) upon condition of saving the lives of all such as should be found without Arms. All which was done with no small resistance, for there were at least two hundred killed and taken, together with seven Colours, which were sent by the Prince, to the Princess of Piedmont, and afterwards to the King, together with those three and twenty others, which were taken at the defeat of Ottage, and the Staffs of two Masters of the Camp, Caracciolo and Catanda, fent by the Duke of Savoy, as the the fruits of those Victories, which his Majesties Armies had obtained, with a Let∣ter in answer to that which was brought him, by the Marquess de Saluce. The Prince of Piedmont having suffered his Army to Pillage for about six and thirty hours in Pl••ve, he destroyed the Country towards Albengua, the Magistrate of which place, sent to offer to him the obedience of the Inhabitants; accordingly, he entred into the Town with some few Troops, and from thence went towards Orvietta, which the Genoveses had newly surprised, but he forced it in a few dayes time. After this once