[1] Queene Elianor that was regent in those parties being put in great feare with the newes of this sud|den sturre, got hir into Mirabeau a strong towne,Quéene E|lianor. situat in the countrie of Aniou, and foorthwith dis|patched a messenger with letters vnto king Iohn, requiring him of speedie succour in this hir present danger. In the meane time, Arthur following the victorie, shortlie after followed hir, and woone Mira|beau, where he t [...]oke his grandmother within the same, whom he yet intreated verie honorablie, and with great reuerence (as some haue reported. Matth. Paris. Matth. West. ) ¶But other write far more trulie, that she was not taken, but escaped into a tower, within the which she was straitlie besieged. Thither came also to aid Arthur all the Nobles and men of armes in Poictou, and namelie the foresaid earle of March according to ap|pointment betwixt them: so that by this meanes Ar|thur had a great armie togither in the field.