[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] The earle of Cleremont, perceiuing that he could not hurt them with his men of armes, by reason of the strength, came downe on foot with all his compa|nie, and fiercelie set on the Englishmen: but by the terrible shot of the English archers, the Frenchmen in the end were constreined to flée; and the English|men perceiuing the matter, streight leapt on horsse|backe and followed the chase. In the which were ta|ken two hundred prisoners, and thrise as manie slaine. The earle escaped by the swiftnesse of his horsse. At the same season the earle of Suffolke besie|ging the towne of Aumarle (whereof was capteine the lord of Rambures) after foure and twentie great assaults, had the towne and castell simplie to him rendred. Thus by little and little the Englishmen re|couered manie townes which before they had lost. Howbeit about the verie same time, the Frenchmen stale the towne of Lauall, by treason wrought by a miller, which kéeping a mill that ioined to the wall, suffered the French to passe through his mill into the towne. Shortlie after also sir Steuen de Uignoilles, surnamed la Hire,La Hire. tooke by scaling the towne of Lo|uiers in Normandie. The Englishmen in the cold moneth of December besieged the towne of Laignie in the which was the Pusell,Laignie be|sieged by the Englishmen. and diuerse other good capteins.