[1] [2] [3] Whilest these things happened thus in France, Iohn lord Talbot gathered togither a crue of chosen men of warre in England, The lord Talbot s [...]|leth into France. to the number of eight hundred, and sailed into Normandie, and passed by Rone to Paris. In his waie he tooke the strong ca|stell of Ioing betwéene Beauuois and Gisours, and [page 609] caused all the Frenchmen within to be taken and hanged, and after raced and defaced the castell. After he had rested himselfe a while at Paris, and taken aduise with the councell there, what waie it should be best for him to take, without prolonging time; he with the lord de Lisle Adam and others, departed from thence, hauing in their retinues sixtéene hun|dred men of [...]. And comming to the castell of [...] vpon Oise, whereof was capteine sir A| [...]adour de Uignoils brother to the Hire, they found it abandoned by them that had it in kéeping, who were withdrawne to the towne of Creill.