[1] They chanced to incounter two hundred English horssemen, whom after long and sharpe fight they di|stressed, & slue sir William Felton, one of the chiefe leaders of those EnglishmenSir William Felton [...] Froissard. and tooke sir Thomas Felton his brother, sir Hugh Hastings, and diuerse other, both knights and esquiers. Whether that king Henrie was greatlie incouraged by this good lucke in the beginning, or that he trusted through the great multitude of his people, which he had there with him, to haue the vpper hand of his enimies, true it is that he coueted sore to giue them battell; and although he might haue wearied the prince, and constreined him for want of vittels to haue returned, or to haue fought with him at some great aduantage, if he had deferred the battell, as the marshall of France Dan|drehen gaue counsell, yet he would néeds fight in all the hast, and therefore did thus approch his enimies.