Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the morrow after being sundaie, and the eigh|téenth daie of September, the French king caused his host to be diuided into three battels or wards, and in each of them were sixteene thousand armed men, all mustered and passed for armed men. The first bat|tell was gouerned by the duke of Orleance,The ordering of the French battell. wherein were six and thirtie banners, and twise as manie pe|nons. The second was led by the duke of Norman|die and his brethren, the lord Lewes & the lord Iohn. The third the French king himselfe conducted. And while these battels were setting in arraie, the king caused the lord Eustace de Ribaumount, and two o|ther noble men to ride on before, to see the dealing of the Englishmen, and to aduise of what number they were. Those that were thus sent, rode foorth and be|held the order of the Englishmen at good leisure: and returning, infourmed the king, that as they could iudge, the enimies were about two thousand men of armes, foure thousand archers, and fiftéene hundred of others, and that they were lodged in such a strong place, and so well fensed with ditches and hedges, that it would be hard assaulting them therein.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The cardinall of Piergort the popes legat, as then li [...]ng in the citie of Poictiers,The cardinal of Piergort. came that morning to the king, and required him to absteine from battell, till he might vnderstand whether the prince would condescend vnto such conditions of peace as he him|selfe should thinke reasonable, which if it might be brought to passe, the same should be more honorable for him, than to aduenture so manie noble men as were there with him at that present in hazard of bat|tell. The king was contented that the cardinall should go to the prince, and see what he could doo with him.The prince of Wales con|tented to come to a treatie. The cardinall rode to the prince, and talked with him till he was contented to come to a freatie. The cardinall returned to the French king, and required of him that a truce might be granted till the next daies sun-rising: which truce obteined, he spent that daie in riding to and fro betwixt them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The prince offered to render into the kings hands all that he had woone in that voiage,The offer [...] the prince of Wales. as well townes as castels, and also to release all the prisoners, which he or any of his men had taken in that iournie: and further he was contented to haue béene sworne not to beare armour against the French king within the terme of seuen yeares next following. But the French king would not agree therevnto:The French kings pre|sumptuous demand. the vtter|most that he would agree vnto, was this, that the prince and an hundred of his knights should yéeld themselues as prisoners vnto him, otherwise he would not haue the matter taken vp. But it was the French kings hap after (notwithstanding his hau|tines) to be taken captiue, as Okland noteth, saieng,

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