[1] [page 418] They made countenance also to haue set on South|hampton, if sir Iohn Arundell, brother to the earle of Arundell had not beene readie there with a number of men of armes and archers, by whom the towne was defended, and the enimies chased to their ships. From thence the Frenchmen departed, and sailing towards Douer,Hastings burnt. burnt Hastings; but Winchels [...] they could not win, being valiantlie defended by the abbat of Battell,An ouer|throw giuen by the Frẽch to the Eng|lishmen. and others. After this, they landed one day not far from the abbeie of Lewes, at a place called Rottington, where the prior of Lewes, and two knights, the one named sir Thomas Cheinie, and the other sir Iohn Falleslie, hauing assembled a number of the countrie people, incountred the Frenchmen, but were ouerthrowen; so that there were slaine a|bout an hundred Englishmen; and the prior, with the two knights, and an esquier called Iohn Brokas, were taken prisoners, but yet the Frenchmen lost a great number of their owne men at this conflict, and so with their prisoners retired to their ships and gal|lies, and after returned into France.