[1] These newes being signified to the constable, and other the French capteins, asswaged their great mirth and triumphant ioy, conceiued for the victorie of Montargis, that loth they were to attempt anie further enterprises against the English nation. But the duke of Alanson, who (as ye haue heard) was latelie deliuered out of captiuitie, reuiued againe the dulled spirits of the Dolphin, and somewhat ad|uanced, in hope of good spéed, the fainting harts of his capteins; so that (some occasion offered) they de|termined to atchiue a notable feat (as they tooke it) against the Englishmen, which was the recouerie of the citie of Mans out of their hands: for so it happe|ned, that diuers of the chéefe rulers in that citie, and namelie diuerse spirituall persons, meaning to re|uolt to the Dolphins side, aduertised him by letters of their whole minds, which letters were conueied vnto him by certeine friers.