Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this their dolorous iournie & pitifull slaugh|ter, diuerse clearks of Paris made manie a lamen|table verse, complaining that the king reigned by will, and that councellors were parciall, affirming that the noble men fled against nature, and that the commons were destroied by their prodigalitie, de|claring also that the cleargie were dumbe, and durst not saie the truth, and that the humble commons du|lie obeied, & yet euer suffered punishment, for which cause by diuine persecution the lesse number vanqui|shed the greater: wherefore they concluded, that all things went out of order, and yet was there no man that studied to bring the vnrulie to frame. It was no maruell though this battell was lamentable to the French nation, for in it were taken and slaine the flower of all the nobilitie of France.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 There were taken prisoners,Noble men prisoners. Charles duke of Orleance nephue to the French king, Iohn duke of Burbon, the lord Bouciqualt one of the marshals of France (he after died in England) with a number of other lords, knights, and esquiers, at the least fiftéene hundred, besides the common people.The number slaine on the French part. Englishmen slaine. There were slaine in all of the French part to the number of ten thousand men, whereof were princes and noble men bearing baners one hundred twentie and six; to these, of knights, esquiers, and gentlemen, so manie as made vp the number of eight thousand and foure hun|dred (of the which fiue hundred were d [...]bbed knights the night before the battell) so as of the meaner sort, not past sixteene hundred. Amongst those of the nobi|litie that were slaine, these were the cheefest, Charles lord de la Breth high constable of France, Iaques of Chatilon lord of Dampier admerall of France, the lord Rambures master of the crossebowes, sir Guischard Dolphin great master of France, Iohn duke of Alanson, Anthonie duke of Brabant brother to the duke of Burgognie, Edward duke of Bar, the earle of Neuers an other brother to the duke of Bur|gognie, with the erles of Marle, Uaudemont, Beau|mont, Grandprée, Roussie, Fauconberge, Fois and Lestrake, beside a great number of lords and barons of name.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Of Englishmen, there died at this battell,Englishmen slaine. Ed|ward duke Yorke, the earle of Suffolke, sir Richard Kikelie, and Dauie Gamme esquier, and of all other not aboue fiue and twentie persons, as some doo re|port; but other writers of greater credit affirme, that there were slaine aboue fiue or six hundred persons. Rich. Grafton. Titus Liuius. Titus Liuius saith, that there were slaine of English|men, beside the duke of Yorke, and the earle of Suf|folke, an hundred persons at the first incounter. The duke of Glocester the kings brother was sore woun|ded about the hips, and borne downe to the ground, so that he fell backwards, with his féet towards his eni|mies, whom the king bestrid, and like a brother vali|antlie rescued from his enimies, & so sauing his life, caused him to be conueied out of the fight, into a place of more safetie. Abr. Fl. out of Anglorum prae|lijs sub Henr. 5. ¶ The whole order of this con|flict which cost manie a mans life, and procured great bloudshed before it was ended, is liuelie described in Anglorum praelijs; where also, besides the manner of di|sposing EEBO page image 556 the armies, with the exploits on both sides, the number also of the slaine, not much differing (though somewhat) from the account here named, is there touched, which remembrance verie fit for this place, it were an errour (I thinke) to omit; and there|fore here inserted (with the shortest) as followeth.
—equitatus ordine primo,Magnanimi satrapae, post hos cecidere secundoNauarrae comes, & tuus archiepiscopus (ô Sans)Praeterea comites octo periere cruentisVulneribus, trita appellant quos voce baronesPlus centum, clari generis plus mille cadebantSexcenti, notí decem plus millia vulgiEx Francorum, ter centum perdidit Anglus:Et penes Henricum belli victoria mansit.