[1]
[2] This doone, they tooke vp
the bodie of him whom the Flemish writers call the earle of Penbroke, and
got them againe to the sea, for that they were aduer|tised how the duke of
Burgognie meant to besiege Calis. Wherevpon raising their siege thus
from Sluis castell, they returned vnto the
defense of the towne of Calis, so much desired of the French nati|on. As
they returned homewards, they met with three caricks of Genoa, of the which
one hauing the wind with hir, meant to haue ouerthrowne the ship wherein the
lord Thomas of Lancaster was aboord: but by the good foresight of the master
of the ship that ruled the sterne, suddenlie turning the same, the vio|lent
swaie of that huge vessell comming so vpon them, was auoided; but yet the
caricke stroke off the nose of the English
ship, and brused hir on the side. Then began the fight verie cruell, till
the earle of Kent came to the rescue: and so finallie after a great [...]onflict and bloudie battell betwixt the caricks and English
ships,
A great fight by sea. Threé ca|ricks are taken. Townes in Normandie burnt.