[1] [2] Iacob. Meir. There died of Englishmen at this battell about foure hundred. The Flemings had no horssemen a|mongst them, nor anie number of gentlemen, for they stood in such dread of English bowes, that they durst not come to anie battell with them, but kéeping themselues out of danger, set the commons of the countrie in hand to trie what they against the Eng|lishmen were able to doo without them. This battell was fought vpon a mondaie being the fifteenth of Maie. The countrie was put in a woonderfull feare by this ouerthrow, so that the townes and fortresses were in great doubt, and some yeelded themselues to the Englishmen, as Berghen and others; some were woone by force, as the castell of Drinchan, and the towne of S. Uenant. To be short, the Englishmen became maisters of all the countrie alongst the sea side, euen from Grauelin to Sluis,The English|mẽ subdue di|uerse towns in Flanders, and spoile the countrie. and got such ri|ches by pillage and spoile, as they could not wish for greater. They preuailed so much, that they wan in maner all the close towns within the bailiffewéekes of Cassell, of Popering, Messines, and Furneis, with the townes of Newport, Blankberke, and di|uerse other.