[1] After the French king had created new officers, in hope to relieue the state of his realme and coun|trie, sore shaken by the late great ouerthrow, it chan|ced, that Thomas duke of Excester capteine of Har|flue, accompanied with thrée thousand Englishmen, made a great rode into Normandie, almost to the ci|tie of Rone, in which iournie he got great abundance both of riches and prisoners: but in his returne, the earle of Arminacke newlie made constable of France, intending in his first enterprise to win the spurs, hauing with him aboue fiue thousand horsse|men, incountred with the duke.A sore con|flict. The fight was hand|led on both parts verie hotlie, but bicause the Eng|lishmen were not able to resist the force of the Frenchmen, the duke was constreined to retire with losse at the least of thrée hundred of his footmen.