[1] [2] At which instant the trumpets sounded, and the drums stroke vp in the English armie, and here|wi [...]h they being diuided into three battels, and to ech one his gard of two hundred horssemen, beside the od hundred that attended as a defense to the residue, they shewed themselues to their enimies. The Frenchmen perceiuing this, packed awaie with all haste possible,The French|men dislodge out of their [...]. marching toward Hardilo in two battels. Wherevpon the English capteins leauing their footmen behind them, and taking onelie with them the horssemen, followed with all spéed after their enimies, and comming to the bridge commonlie cal|led pont de Bricque, which certeine English carpen|ters garded with a number of harquebutters, and foure small field peeces, had forced and repared the same that night: and so the horssemen finding it suf|ficientlie repared, passed ouer, and comming to S. Estienne, they found there fiue hundred Dutch hors|men, commonlie called Swart rutters, that were lodged there to kéepe that passage: but being surpri|sed on the sudden by the English horssemen, and sharpelie assailed, they were wholie distressed, and the most part of them taken prisoners, and there|with left with the followers of the armie, were af|ter slaine, bicause they knew not where to bestow them.