Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The worthie prince like a couragious chiefteine, when he saw that he must needs [...]ight,The exte [...]tion of the prince. required his people not to be abashed at the great number of their enimies, sith the victorie did not consist in the multi|tude of men, but where God would send it: and if it fortuned that the iournie might be theirs and his, they should be the most honored people of the world: and if they should die in that righteous quarrell, he had the king his father and also his brethren, in like case as they had freends and kinsmen, that would seeke their reuenge. And therefore he desired them EEBO page image 389 that daie to shew themselues like valiant men of warre: and for his part he trusted in God and saint George, they should see in his person no default These or the like words did this most gentle prince speake, which greatlie comforted all his people.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Noble men with the prince of Wales.There were with him of earles, Warwike, Su [...]|folke, Sal [...]sburie, Stafford; of lords, Cobhain Spenser, Andeley, Berkley, Basset, Warren, de la Wa [...]e, Bradeston, Burwasch, Felton, Mallow, and diuerse other: also sir Iohn Chandois, by whome he was much counselled sir Richard Stafford, sir Ri|chard of Penbruche, and manie other knights and valiant esquires of England. Moreouer, there was of Gascoigne,The capitall de Beuf. the capitall of Buz or Beuf, the lords of Prumes, Burguenrie, Chaumount, de Lespare, Rosen, Monferant, Landuras, the Souldich of Le|strad or Lescard, and other: and of Heinault, sir Eu|stace Daubreticourt, sir Iohn de Guistelles and o|ther strangers.The number of the prince his armie. All the princes companie passed not the number of eight thousand men one and other, of the which (as Iacobus Meire saith) thrée thousand were archers: though Froissard (as I haue rehearsed be|fore) reporteth the number of archers to be more, as in one place six thousand, and in an other place foure thousand.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The number of the French.The French king hauing in his armie thrée score thousand fighting men, wherof there were more than three thousand knights, made so sure account of vic|torie, as anie man might of a thing not yet had, con|sidering his great puissance, in regard to the small number of his aduersaries: and therefore immedi|atlie after that the cardinall was departed, he caused his battels to march forward, and approching to the place where the Englishmen stood readie to receiue their enimies,The battell is begun. caused the onset to be giuen. There were certeine French horssemen, to the number of three hundred, with the Almains also on horssebacke appointed to breake the arraie of the English ar|chers, but the archers were so defended and compas|sed about with hedges and ditches, that the horsse|men of the French part could not enter to doo their feat, and being galled with the sharpe shot of the English bowes,The force of the English archers. they were ouerthrowne horsse and man, so that the vaward of the Frenchmen, wherein was the duke of Athens, with the marshals of France, the lord Iohn de Cleremont, and the lord Arnold Dandrehen or Odenhen, began to disorder within a while, by reason of the shot of the archers, to|gither with the helpe of the men of armes, amongst whom in the forefront was the lord Iames Audeley,The lord Iames Au|deley. to performe a vow which he had made, to be one of the first setters on.