[1] [2] When the duke of Bar heard that his enimies were thus comming towards him, like a hardie cap|teine he raised his siege, and met face to face with the earle and his companie, betwéene whome was a cru|ell and mortall battell. The horssemen of the French side endured long, but in conclusion the English ar|chers so galled their horsses, and so wounded the men, that the Barrois, Almains, and other of duke Reig|ners side were compelled to flee. In the chase was ta|ken [page 607] the duke of Bar, the bishop of Metz, the lord of of Roquedemaque, sir Euerard of Salseburgh, the Uicont Darcie, and two hundred other, beside three thousand which were slaine.