[1] For after that the French king had giuen sum|mons to the citie, the inhabitants streightwaies did not onelie deuise which waie they might betraie the citie, but also put on armor, and rebelled openlie against their capteins: who perceiuing the vntruth of them, and their owne danger, retired into the castell or palace, where (for a certeine space) with arrowes & handguns they sore molested the vntrue citizens. But at length,

Harflue be|sieged.

Sir Thomas Curson.

vnderstanding the great puissance of the French king at hand, and despairing of all aid and succour, they yeelded vpon condition; that with all their goods and armour they should safelie depart to Caen, and that certeine townes should be deliue|red by a day. And till the same townes were rendred, the earle of Shrewsburie and the lord Butler, sonne to the earle of Ormond, were left behind as pledges, which were sent to the castell of Eureux, bicause they sore feared the malice of the citizens of Rone.