[1] [2] The Englishmen and the Gascoignes hearing horsses to come galloping after them, turned, and per|ceiuing them to be their enimies, stood still to abide them.A skirmish. The Frenchmen couragiouslie gaue the charge, and the Englishmen as valiantlie defended them, so that there insued a great skirmish, which con|tinued a long while, so that it could not be easilie iud|ged who had the better, nor on which side the fortu|nate issue of the present conflict would then fall (for

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till that the battell of the English marshals appro|ched, the which when the Frenchmen saw comming by a wood side,The French|men fled. they fled streightwaies towards Re|morentine, and the Englishmen followed in chase so fast as their horsses might beare them, and entered the towne with the Frenchmen: but the French lords and the one halfe of their companie got into the castell, and so saued themselues.The prince lodgeth in the towne of Re|morentine. The prince hearing what had happened, came into the towne, and there lodged that night, sending sir Iohn Chandois to talke with the capiteines of the castell, to know if they would yeeld: and bicause they refused so to doo, on the next morrow he caused his people to giue an assault to the place, which continued the most part of the day, but yet missing their purpose, he commanded that they should draw to their lodgings, and rest them for that night.