[1] But certeine of the horssemen to the number of thrée thousand came forward, and at the end of a wood shewed themselues in ope [...] [...] of the English ar|mie. And thus they stood countenancing the Eng|lishmen.The northern prickers plaie the men. Some of the northerne prickers made to them, and in skirmishing with them, tooke some of them prisoners. About noone the same daie, that va|liant Welsh knight sir Rice ap Thomas with his re|tinue of horssemen being departed from the siege of Terrouan came to the king, and streightwaies was sent to the earle of Essex, which with two hundred speares was laid in a stale, if the Frenchmen had come neerer. When they were ioined togither, they drew about the hill, hauing with them sir Thomas Guilford, with two hundred archers on horssebacke, meaning to set on the Frenchmen: which percei|uing that, and doubting least more companie had fol|lowed, they suddenlie drew backe, and ioined them with their great battell.