[1] The number of the French.The French king hauing in his armie thrée score thousand fighting men, wherof there were more than three thousand knights, made so sure account of vic|torie, as anie man might of a thing not yet had, con|sidering his great puissance, in regard to the small number of his aduersaries: and therefore immedi|atlie after that the cardinall was departed, he caused his battels to march forward, and approching to the place where the Englishmen stood readie to receiue their enimies,The battell is begun. caused the onset to be giuen. There were certeine French horssemen, to the number of three hundred, with the Almains also on horssebacke appointed to breake the arraie of the English ar|chers, but the archers were so defended and compas|sed about with hedges and ditches, that the horsse|men of the French part could not enter to doo their feat, and being galled with the sharpe shot of the English bowes,The force of the English archers. they were ouerthrowne horsse and man, so that the vaward of the Frenchmen, wherein was the duke of Athens, with the marshals of France, the lord Iohn de Cleremont, and the lord Arnold Dandrehen or Odenhen, began to disorder within a while, by reason of the shot of the archers, to|gither with the helpe of the men of armes, amongst whom in the forefront was the lord Iames Audeley,The lord Iames Au|deley. to performe a vow which he had made, to be one of the first setters on.