[1] [2] [3] When night was come vpon them, there were thirtie French ships,Additions to Triuet & Merimuth. that yet had not entred the bat|tell, the which sought by couert of the night to haue stolne awaie, and one of them being a mightie great vessell, called the Iames of Déepe,The Iames of Déepe. would haue taken awaie with hir a ship of Sandwich that belonged to the prior of Canturburie: but by the helpe of the earle of Huntington, after they had fought all the night till the next morning, the Englishmen at length pre|uailed, and taking that great huge ship of Déepe, found in hir aboue foure hundred dead bodies. To conclude, verie few of the French ships escaped, ex|cept some of their smaller vessels, and certeine gal|lies with their admerall Barbenoir,Barbenoir. Gaguin. Auesburie. Tho. Walsi. Adam Meri|muth. who in the begin|ning of the battell got foorth of the hauen, aduising the other capteins to doo the like, thereby to auoid the danger which they wilfullie imbraced. There died in this battell fought (as some write) on midsummer daie, in the yeare aforesaid, of Frenchmen to the number of 30000, of Englishmen about 4000, Froissard. Ia. Meir. R. Southw. The number slaine. Rich. South. or (as other haue that liued in those daies) not past 400, a|mongst whom there were foure knights of great no|bilitie, as sir Thomas Monhermere, sir Thomas La|timer, sir Iohn Boteler, and sir Thomas Poinings.