[1] Neere to Ribaumount, about 80 Englishmen of sir Hugh Caluerlies band were distressed by 120 Frenchmen: & likewise beside Soissons, Fabian. 120 Eng|lish speares, or (as other writers haue) fiftie speares, and twentie archers were vanquished by a Burgo|nian knight called sir Iohn de Uienne, that had with him thrée hundred French speares. Of more hurt by anie incounters I read not that the Englishmen su|steined in this voiage.The French|men meant not to fight with the Englishmen For the Frenchmen kept them aloofe, and meant not to fight with their eni|mies, but onelie to kéepe them from vittels, and fet|ching of forrage abroad, by reason whereof the Eng|lishmen lost manie horsses, and were in déed driuen to great scarsitie of vittels. When they had passed the riuer of Loire, Polydor. and were come into the countrie of Berrie, they vnderstood how the Frenchmen laid themselues in sundrie ambushes to distresse them, if they might espie the aduantage: but the duke of Lan|caster placing his light horssemen, with part of the ar|chers in the fore ward, and in the battell the whole force of his footmen with the men at armes, diuided into wings to couer that battell, wherein he himselfe was,The order of the duke of Lancasters armie in marching. the residue of the horssemen with the rest of the archers he appointed to the rereward, and so causing them to keepe close togither, marched foorth till he came into Poictou, & then in reuenge of the Poicto|uins that had reuolted from the English obeisanc [...], he began a new spoile, killing the people, wasting the countrie, and burning the houses and buildings euerie where as he passed,He cõmeth [...] to Burdeaux Froissard. The archb. of Rauenna [...] from the p [...]p [...] & so finallie about Christ|masse came to Burdeaux.