[1] The king being aduertised that the Frenchmen approched to fight with him, left the gun (bicause the maister carpenter vndertooke to weie it shortlie out of the water) & set forward, passing on by Tornohan, which he left on his right hand, and a little beyond pit|ched downe his field abiding for his enimies, the which (as he was informed) were not far off.The French armie appro|cheth, & their number. On the morrow after being wednesdaie, the Reliefe of the speares brought word that they had ascried the French armie comming forward in order of battell, to the number of eleuen thousand footmen, and foure thousand horssemen. Capteins of this armie were the lord de la Palice, the lord de Priennes, the duke of Longuile, the earle of S. Paule, the lord of Flo|ringes, the lord of Cleremont, & Richard de la Poole a banished man, son to Iohn duke of Suffolke. They came within two miles of the kings armie, and there the footmen staled, and came no further.