[1] While the king laie thus before Calis, diuerse lords and knights came to sée him out of Flanders, Brabant, Heinault, and Almaigne. Amongst other came the lord Robert of Namur, and was reteined with the king as his seruant, the king giuing him thrée hundred pounds sterling of yearelie pension out of his coffers to be paid at Bruges.The lord Charles de Blois tak [...] prisoner. During the time that the siege thus continued before Calis, the lord Charles de Blois, that named himselfe duke of Britaine, was taken before a castell in Britaine, called la Roch Darien, and his armie discomfited, chéeflie by the aid of that valiant English knight sir Thomas Dagworth,Sir Thoma [...] Dagworth. Froissard. who had beene sent from the siege of Calis by king Edward to assist the countesse of Montfort and other his fréends against the said Charles de Blois, that with a gret armie of French|men and Britains, had the same time besieged the said castell of Roch Darien, cõstreining them within in such forceable maner, that they stood in great néed of present succors.Sir [...] Hartilie [...] English knight w [...]s also there with him. The said sir Thomas Dagworth aduertised hereof, with three hundred men of armes, and foure hundred archers of his owne retinues, be|side certeine Britaines, approched to the siege, and on the 20 of Iune earlie in the morning, a quarter of an houre before day, suddenlie set vpon the enimies, who hauing knowledge of his comming, were readie to receiue him as the day before, but being now sur|prised [page 377] thus on the sudden, they were greatlie ama|zed: for they that were within Roch Darien, as soone as the appearance of daie had discouered the matter vnto them, so that they might know their freends from their enimies, they issued foorth, and holpe not a litle to the atchiuing of the victorie, which was cléere|lie obteined before sunne-rising, and the French ar|mie quite discomfited, greatlie to the praise of the said sir Thomas Dagworth and his companie, consi|dering their small number, in comparison of their aduersaries, who were reckoned to be twelue hun|dred good men of armes, knights, and esquiers, beside six hundred other armed men, two thousand crosse|bowes, six hundred archers of the countrie of Bri|taine, and footmen of commons innumerable.