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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The prince of Wales, perceiuing how his enimies (for the more part of them) were fleeing awaie as men discomfited, sent out his horssemen as well on the one hand as on the other, and he himselfe with his whole power of footmen rushed foorth, and manfullie assailed the maine battell of the Frenchmen, where the king himselfe was, Froissard. The valian|cie of the French king. who like a valiant prince would not flee, but fought right manfullie: so that if the fourth part of his men had doo [...]e halfe their parts as he did his, the victorie by likelihood had rested (as Froissard saith) on his side: but he was forsaken of his three sonnes, and of his brother the duke of Orle|ance, which fled out of the battell with cleare hands. Finallie, after huge slaughter made of those noble|men, and other which abode with him euen to the end, he was taken, and so likewise was his yongest sonne Philip,The French king taken. and both put in great danger to haue béene murthered after they were taken, by the English|men and Gascoignes, striuing who should haue the king to his prisoner, where in déed a knight of Flan|ders or rather Artois, borne in saint Omers, called sir Denise Morbecke, tooke him, Ia. Meit. Sir Denise Morbecke. Froissard. but he was straight|waies taken from the same sir Denise by other that came in the meane season, better prouided (béelike) of strength, and lead him awaie vnresisted.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 There were slaine in this battell, of noblemen, the dukes of Burbon and Athens,Noblemen slaine. the marshall Clere|mont, sir Geffrey Charnie that bare the chéefe stan|dert of France, the bishop of Chaalons, sir Eustace de Ribaumont, with diuerse other to the number of eight hundred lords, knights, Ia. Meir. and gentlemen of name. In all there died on the French part six thou|sand of one and other. Polydor. The chase. The chase was continued euen to the gates of Poictiers, and manie slaine and bea|ten downe in the stréet before the gates, which the ci|tizens had closed, for doubt least the Englishmen should enter with them that fled thither for safegard. There were taken beside the king and his sonne, the lord Iaques de Burbon earle of Ponthieu, Froissard. Annales de France. brother to the duke of Burbon that was slaine there, the erle of Ew, the lord Charles his brother earle of Long|uile, the archbishop of Sens, the earles of Uandosme, Salesbruch, Uentadore, Tankeruille, Estampes, and Dampmartine:Archembald Douglas tak [...] Iacob. Meir. also Archembald Dowglas a noble man of Scotland, sonne to the honorable lord William Dowglas that was killed in Spaine, the marshall Dandrehen or Odenhen (as Iacobus Meir saith) with others to the number of seuenteene hundred earles, lords, knights, and gentlemen,Prisoners taken. be|side those of the meaner sort; so that the Englishmen had EEBO page image 390 had twise as manie prisoners as they themselues were in number: and therefore it was deuised amongst them, to put the most part of their prisoners to ransome there in the field, and so they did for doubt of further danger, the multitude being so great as it was.

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