[1] After this ouerthrow obteined, the French king assembled an armie roiall, and comming before Ca|en,Caen besieged and yéelded to ye French. besieged it on all sides: and after making his ap|proches, fiercelie assalted the walles. But the duke of Summerset, and the other capteins within the towne, manfullie withstood their enimies, shewing both force and great policie in defending and beat|ing backe the assailants. The French king, percei|uing he could not preuaile that waie, sent for all his great ordinance to Paris, which being brought, he dailie shot at the wals, and did some hurt: but to the castell which stood on a rocke, and in it a dungeon vn|able to be beaten downe, he did no harme at all.