Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the same morning the Frenchmen were com|ming with their conueie of vittels to refresh the towne, hauing appointed one part of their troops to kéepe on that side the riuer where the English armie was first incamped, and where the earle of Shrewes|burie still kept his field; that in offering the skir|mish on that side, the residue of the horssemen might with more ease and safetie put the vittels and other necessarie things into the towne on the other side. Here might a man haue séene of what force in wars sudden chance is oftentimes. Polydor. The force of sudden chance in warre. For the king thus with his battell passing the riuer, meaning to besiege the towne on euerie side, and the Frenchmen at that same instant hauing also passed the riuer with other carriages laden with vittels, purposing to reléeue the towne on that side, caused no small doubt to be conceiued of ech others meaning, on both parts, least that the one, hauing knowlege of the others purpose, had béene prepared for to hinder the same.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 And yet was it nothing so, for neither the king knew of the Frenchmens approch that daie, neither they of his passing ouer the water. Edw. Hall. Polydor. But when the king had aduertisement giuen him (by the light horssemen that were sent abroad to discouer the countrie) how the Frenchmen were at hand; he pre|pared himselfe to the battell, and first set foorth his horssemen,The king with his bat|tell of footmen. and then followed himselfe with his bat|tell of footemen. The French capteins being hereof aduised, determined not to fight without their foot|men; and therefore with all spéed sent backe their carriages, and staied with their horssemen, vntill the carriages might haue leasure to get out of danger. In the meane time the Englishmen aduanced for|ward, and their horssemen mounted vp the hill, where the French horssemen were in troope, with thirtie and three standards spred, & might sée the Eng|lishmen comming, and the kings battell marching forward with the Almans.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 There were amongest the Frenchmen certeine companies of Estradiots, which being placed before the French hoast, as they came downe the hill to EEBO page image 822 skirmish with the Englishmen saw where the ban|ners of the English horssemen were comming,The Estradi|ots mista|king footmen for horssemen fled first. and the kings battell following vpward, weening vere|lie that all had béene horssemen, wherevpon they cast themselues about and fled. The Frenchmen were so fast in arraie, that the Estradiots could not enter; and so they ran still by the ends of the Frenchmens ranks. Herewith the English horssemen set on, and about an hundred archers on horsse-backe, being lighted beside their horsses, and set by an hedge all a|longest a village side called Bomie, shot freshlie at their enimies; & also certeine culuerings being pla|ced on the top of an hill were discharged amongest the thickest prease of the Frenchmen; so that finallie the French were discomfited: for those that were be|hind saw the fall of some of their standards, which the Englishmen ouerthrew, and their Estradiots also (in whome they had great confidence) returne.