[1] [2] [3] The French king hearing that the towne of Har|flue was gotten, and that the king of England was marching forward into the bowels of the realme of France, sent out proclamations, and assembled peo|ple on euerie side, committing the whole charge of his armie to his sonne the Dolphine and duke of Aquitaine, who incontinentlie caused the bridges to be broken, and the passages to be kept. Also they cau|sed all the corne and vittels to be conueied awaie,Corne & vit|tels destroied where the Englishmen should passe. or destroied in all places, where it was coniectured that the Englishmen would passe. The king of England nothing dismaied herewith, kept his iournie in spite of his enimies, constreining them within diuerse townes and holds to furnish him with vittels: but yet as he passed by the towne of Ew,A skirmish with the gar|rison of Ew. the garrison of the towne issued foorth, and gaue the Englishmen a skirmish, who beat them into the towne with losse, namelie of a right valiant man of armes, Enguerant. named Lancelot Piers. There were manie Englishmen hurt with quarels shot off from the loops and wals, as they pursued the enimies vnto the gates.