[1] After this,Gisours be+sieged & yeel|ded to the Englishm [...]n all the townes and castels within a great circuit offered to yéeld themselues vnto the English obeisance; the strong towne and castell of Gisours onelie excepted, which still held out, & would shew no token of will to yeeld. Héerevpon the king the last of August began to approch the same, but at the first he could not come néere, by reason of the marishes and fennes: but yet such was the diligence of the Englishmen, aduanced by the presence of the king, readie in all places to commend them that were forward in their businesse, and to chastise such as slacked their duetie, that dailie they came neerer and néerer, although the Frenchmen issued foorth dai|lie to encounter them, giuing them manie sharpe skirmishes. For the towne being double walled and [...]ensed with those broad marishes, so incouraged them within, that they thought no force had béene able to haue subdued them.