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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There was the lord Arnold Dandrehen taken pri|soner, and the lord Iohn de Cleremont slaine, so that the noble prowesse of the said lord Iames Audeley, breaking through the Frenchmens battell with the slaughter of manie enimies, was that day most ap|parant. Tho. Walsi. The earles of Warwike and S [...]ffolke. The loiall constancie of the noble earles of Warwike and Suffolke, that fought so stoutlie, so earnestlie, and so fiercelie, was right manifest. And the prince himselfe did not onelie fulfill the office of a noble chéefteine, but also of a right valiant and ex|pert souldiour, attempting what soeuer any other hardie warriour would in such cases haue done. Nei|ther was this battell quicklie dispatched, nor easilie brought to end; but it was fought out with such ob|stinate earnestnesse, that thrée times that daie were the Englishmen driuen to renew the fight, through the multitude of enimies that increased and came still vpon them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Finallie, the marshals battell was quite discom|fited: for the Frenchmen and Almains fell one vpon an other, and could not passe foorth; and those that were behind, & could not get forward, reculed backe: and while the marshals battell being on horssebacke thus assailed the English armie with great disaduan|tage and was [...]n the end beaten backe the two bat|tels of the [...] of Norm [...]ndie and Orlean [...] came forward and likewise [...]ss [...]iled th [...] Englishmen, but could not preuaile. The archers shot so fercelie, that to conclude the Frenchmen behind, vnderstanding the discomfiture of the marshals battell,The mar|shals battell put to y^ [...] worst and how their fellowes before could not enter vpon their enimies, they opened and ran to their horsses, in whome they did put more trust for their safegard by galloping on thei [...] awaie, than in their [...] hands, for all their late brauerie and gre [...]t [...] One thing sore dis|couraged the Frenchmen [...] that was this beside those Englishmen that were within the closure of their campe, there were certeine men of armes on horssebacke, with a number of archers also on horsse|backe, appointed to coast vnder the couert of a moun|teine, adioining to the place, where they thought to strike into a side of the duke of Normandies battell,The French|men séeke to saue them|selus by flight Polydor. so that with the terrour hereof, and with the continu|all shot of the English archers, the Frenchmen not knowing where to turne themselues, sought to saue their liues by flight.