[1] Upon the sundaie next following,The English men before Paris. a part of the kings hoste came before the citie of Paris, and im|battelled themselues in a field fast by saint Marcil|les, abiding there frõ morning till three of the clocke in the after noone, to sée if the Frenchmen would come foorth to giue battell: but the French would not taste of that vessell. For the duke of Normandie (well considering what losse had insued within few yeares past vnto the realme of France, by giuing battell to the Englishmen, and taught by late triall and féeling of smart to dread imminent danger, for

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would not suffer anie of his people to issue foorth of the gates, but commanded them to be readie onelie to defend the walles and gates, although he had a great power of men of warre within the citie, beside the huge multitude of the inhabitants. The English|men to prouoke their enimies the sooner to saile forth, Polydor. The sub|urbs o [...] Par|ris burnt. burnt diuerse parts of the suburbs, and rode euen to the gates of the citie. When they perceiued that the Frenchmen would not come foorth, about three of the clocke in the afternoone they departed out of the field and withdrew to their campe, and then the king and all the English host remooued towards Chartres, and was lodged at a place called Dones. Froissard. The bishop of Beauuois Thither came to him the bishop of Beauuois then chancellor of Normandie, with other, and so handled the mat|ter with him, that a new daie of treatie was appoin|ted to be holden at Bretignie, which is little more than a mile distant from Chartres, vpon the first day of Maie next insuing.