[1] As manie in the battell.In the middle ward, were assigned as manie per|sons, or more, as were in the formost battell, and the charge thereof was committed to the dukes of Bar and Alanson, the earles of Neuers, Uaudemont, Blamont, Salinges, Grant Prée, & of Russie. And in the rereward were all the other men of armes guided by the earles of Marle, Dampmartine, Fau|conberg, and the lord of Lourreie capteine of Arde, who had with him the men of the frontiers of Bolo|nois. Thus the Frenchmen being ordered vnder their standards and banners,The French esteemed six to [...] English. made a great shew: for suerlie they were estéemed in number six times as manie or more, than was the whole companie of the Englishmen, with wagoners, pages and all. They rested themselues, waiting for the bloudie blast of the terrible trumpet, till the houre betwéene nine and ten of the clocke of the same daie, during which sea|son, the constable made vnto the capteins and other men of warre a pithie oration, exhorting and incou|raging them to doo valiantlie, with manie comforta|ble words and sensible reasons. King Henrie also like a leader, and not as one led; like a souereigne, and not an inferior, perceiuing a plot of ground ve|rie strong & méet for his purpose, which on the backe halfe was sensed with the village, wherein he had lod|ged the night before, and on both sides defended with hedges and bushes, thought good there to imbattell his host, and so ordered his men in the same place, as he saw occasion, and as stood for his most aduan|tage.