[1] Whilest the duke of Bedford was busie to reteine the Normans in their due obedience, the French king departed from Senlis; and comming to the towne of saint Denis,The French got saint De|nis. found it in maner desolate, so that he entered there without resistance, and lodged his armie at Mount Martyr and Amberuilliers, néere vnto the citie of Paris; and from thence sent Iohn duke of Alanson, and his sorceresse Ione la Pusell, with thrée thousand light horssemen to assault the citie, and followed himselfe, in hope to get it, ei|ther by force or treatie. But the English capteins e|uerie one kéeping his ward and place assigned, so manfullie defended themselues, their walles and towers, with the assistance of the Parisiens, that they repelled the Frenchmen, and threw downe Ione their great goddesse into the bottome of the towne ditch,Ione had a hurt in the leg and a fall, drawen all d [...]rtie out of the mire. where she lay behind the backe of an asse sore hurt in the leg, till the time that she (all filthie with mire and durt) was drawne out by Guischard of Thienbrone, seruant to the duke of Alanson.