[1] [2] In this yeare also, the duke of Summerset, ac|companied with the lords of Fauconbridge, Talbot, sir Francis Surien, the Arrogonnois, Matthew Or rather Goche. Gough, Thomas Paulet, Thomas Harington, Walter Limbrike, Iohn Gedding, William Wat|ton esquiers, and Thomas Hilton bailiffe of Rone, with a great companie of the English partie, besie|ged the towne of Harflue (latelie before gotten by the Frenchmen) both by water and land:Harflue besie|ged and woon by the Eng|lishmen. the capteine within the towne was one sir Iohn d'Estouteuille, hauing his brother Robert with him, and a six hun|dred good fighting men. The assailants cast tren|ches, and so fortified themselues in their campe and lodgings, that when the earles of Ew and Dunois, the valiant bastard of Bourbon, the lord Gawcourt, and other famous capteins, with a foure thousand men, sent to the rescue of them within, came b [...]fore the towne, they could not succour their fréends, nor annoie their enimies by anie meanes they could de|uise; & so for feare to lose honour, they returned backe againe, with much trauell and little profit.