[1] Now the French king being aduertised that king Henrie laie thus néere to Tailborge, marched thi|therwards with all his puissance latelie reenforced with new supplies, and approching to Tailborge,Tailborge. had the towne deliuered vnto him. This chanced about the latter end of Iulie. Then after the French king had gotten possession of Tailborge, he ment to passe the water, and if by mediation of a truce politikelie procured by the earle of Cornewall (and as it were at a narrow pinch) the king of England had not found means to remooue in the night season, he had béene in great danger to haue beene taken, through want of such aid as he looked to haue had at the hands of the Poictouins and other his confederats. But yet he got awaie (though with some staine of honour) and withdrew to Xainctes,Xainctes. An encounter betwixt the English and French. whither also the French king folowed, and comming néere to the towne, there was a sharpe incounter begun betwixt the French and the English, wherein the Englishmen were victors, and in which by the Frenchmens owne confession, if the English power had béene like to theirs in num|ber, they had fullie atchiued the honour of a fough|ten field, and for a light skirmish a sound and per|fect victorie.The valiancy of the earle of Leicester and others.