How the squire of Savoy did his arms
on foot to meet the knight guarding the pas, with the sword.
The twelfth day of the following month the
squire of Savoy did his arms with a sword, to meet the knight of the pas.
They both came at the hour of eleven within the lists where they made
their presentations before the judge, as before, and so entered each one into
his pavilion to arm. After the swords were inspected and the cries and
ordinances done, the knight of the pas issued out of his pavilion ,his bassinet
on his head, so well armed that it was a fine thing to see.
And over his harness he was dressed with a robe of sanguine silk all
strewn with blue tears. And the
squire of Savoy was armed with an armet on his head and over his harness was
dressed in his coat of arms. And they left their pavilions advancing the one on
the other so that they came together to fight before the judge. The
Savoyard squire asked for seven
pushes with the sword to be done with three steps to step back and retreat. And the guards were so ordered, in case they wished to step
back their three paces, to put them in the position where they should be; but
the Savoyard didn't see well in his armet, and he bore himself without moving
once from the place where he had first put himself.
And there he waited for the knight of the pas who with each stroke made
his steps back, always doing these steps quickly and handsomely, and then going
to strike against the Savoyard who, as is said, did not move once. Then the
judge, seeing the seven strokes accomplished, threw down his baton, and told
them that their arms were accomplished well and honorably.
They touched together and returned to their pavilions to disarm
themselves.
Chastelain, Georges Chronique de Jacques de Lalain
in Choix de Chroniques at Memoires sur l'Histoire de France, ed. J.A.
C. Buchon Paris 1836 p. 685