[1] The duke of Bedford aduertised of all these dooings, assembled his power about him, and hauing togither ten thousand good Englishmen (beside Normans) departed out of Paris in warlike fashion, & passing thorough Brie to Monstreau fault Yonne, sent by his herald Bedford, letters to the French king, si|gnifieng to him; that where he had (contrarie to the finall conclusion accorded betwéene his noble bro|ther K. Henrie the fift, & king Charles the sixt, father to him that was the vsurper) by allurement of a di|uelish witch,Ione taken to be a witch. taken vpon him the name, title, & digni|tie of the king of France; and further had by mur|ther, stealing, craft, and deceitfull meanes, violent|lie gotten, and wrongfullie kept diuerse cities and townes belonging to the king of England his ne|phue; for proofe thereof he was come downe from Paris with his armie, into the countrie of Brie, by dint of sword and stroke of battell to prooue his wri|ting and cause true, willing his enimie to choose the place, and in the same he would giue him battell.