[1] The duke followed with all his puissance, and set on his enimies. The fight was long, but not so long as perillous, nor so perillous as terrible (for battels on the sea are desperate) till at length the victorie fell to the Englishmen, so that almost all the whole nauie of France, in the which were manie ships, hulkes, carikes,

The French name of fiue hundred ves|sels vanqui|shed.

Titus Liuius.

and other small vessels, to the number of fiue was sunke & taken. Amongst other vessels that were taken, thrée great carikes of Genoa a citie in Italie, were sent into England. In the same conflict were slaine of the Frenchmen no small number, as appea|red by the dead bodies, which were séene euerie daie swimming about the English ships. Titus Liuius. Harflue res|cued by the Englishmen. After this, the duke of Bedford sailed vp to Harflue, & refreshed the towne both with vittels and monie; notwithstanding certeine other French gallies did what they could to haue letted that enterprise. When the erle of Armi|nacke heard that the puissant name of France was vanquished, he raised his siege & returned to Paris.