[1] [2] In this meane time the warre was prosecuted in Gascoine.They had with them 600 men of armes, and 10000 [...] as Abing [...] saith. ¶ The thursdaie before the Purification of our ladie, Henrie earle of Lincolne, and the lord Iohn saint Iohn departing from Baion towards Bellegard, a place besieged as then by the earle of Arthois, to succour them within the same with vit|tels (whereof they stood in néed) as they approched to a wood distant from the fortresse thrée miles, they di|uided themselues into two seuerall battels, the lord Iohn saint Iohn leading the first, and the earle of Lincolne the second. The lord saint Iohn therefore hauing passed the wood with his battell,Battell be|twixt the [...] of Lincoln and the earle of Arthois, who had [...] him 1500 [...] of armes, [...] Abingtõ [...]. and entring into the plaine fields, was incountred by the earle of Arthois, who tarried there for him with a great power, where immediatlie at the first ioining of the battels, the earle of Lincolne retired backe: so that the lord Iohn saint Iohn and his companie ouerset with preasse of enimies were vanquished: and the said lord saint Iohn with sir William de Mortimer, sir William Burmengham and other to the number of eight knights, and diuerse esquires were taken, the which were sent to Paris as prisoners.