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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus when the Englishmen had seuered them|selues into garrisons, the duke of Alanson, the ba|stard of Orleance, Ione le Pusell, the lord Gaw|court, and diuerse other capteins of the Frenchmen, came the twelfe daie of Iune, before the towne of Iargeaux, where the earle of Suffolke and his two brethren soiourned, & gaue to the towne so fierce an assault on thrée parts, that Poiton de Sentrailes, perceiuing an other part void of defendants, scaled the wals on that side, and without difficultie tooke the towne, and slue sir Alexander Poole, brother to the erle, and manie other, to the number of two hundred. But the Frenchmen gained not much thereby, for they lost thrée hundred good men and more. Of the Englishmen fortie were taken, with the earle and his other brother named Iohn.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 The Frenchmen, as they returned to Orleance,Prisoners slaine by the French as they were taken. fell at variance for their prisoners, and slue them all, sauing the earle and his brother. Shortlie after, the same French armie came to Mehun, where they tooke the tower at the bridge foot, and put therein a garrison. From thence they remooued to Baugen|cie, and constreined them that were within the towne to yéeld, vpon condition they might depart with bag and baggage. At the same place there came to the duke of Alanson, the new constable Arthur of Bri|taine, and with him the lord Dalbret, and other. Also after this the earle of Uandosme came to them, so that by the dailie repaire of such as assembled togi|ther to strengthen the French part, they were in all to the number betweene twentie and thrée and twen|tie thousand men.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 All which being once ioined in one armie, Nichol. Giles. Fiue thousãd saith Hall. shortlie after fought with the lord Talbot (who had with him not past six thousand men) neere vnto a village in Beausse called Pataie: at which battell the charge was giuen by the French so vpon a sudden, that the Englishmen had not leisure to put themselues in a|raie, after they had put vp their stakes before their archers, so that there was no remedie but to fight at aduenture. This battell continued by the space of three long houres: for the Englishmen, though they were ouerpressed with multitude of their enimies, yet they neuer fled backe one foot, till their capteine the lord Talbot was sore wounded at the backe, and so taken.

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