[1] [2] When the constable saw their good willes, he was contented to follow their desire, and so foorth they went in good order, and made good face to put their liues in hazard: but when they saw the Englishmen approch in good order, diuided into thrée battels, & the archers readie to shoot, which they of Caen had not seene before, they were sore afraid, and fled awaie to|ward the towne without any order or arraie, for all that the constable could doo to staie them. The Eng|lishmen followed,There were slaine in all without and within the towne 5000 men, as Gio. Villani wri|teth. and in the chase slue manie, and en|tered the towne with their enimies. The constable, and the earle of Tankeruile tooke a tower at the bridge foot, thinking there to saue themselues, but perceiuing the place to be of no force, nor able long to hold out, they submitted themselues vnto sir Tho|mas Holland. ¶ But here whatsoeuer Froissard dooth report of the taking of this tower, and of the yéelding of these two noble men, it is to be proued that the said earle of Tankeruile was taken by one surnamed Legh,Peter Legh. ancestor to sir Peter Legh now liuing, whe|ther in the fight or within the tower, I haue not to saie: but for the taking of the said earle, and for his o|ther manlike prowes shewed here and elsewhere in this iournie, king Edward in recompense of his a|gréeable seruice, gaue to him a lordship in the countie of Chester called Hanley, which the said sir Peter Legh now liuing dooth inioy and possesse, as successor and heire to his ancestor the foresaid Legh, to whom it was so first giuen.