[1] [2] The countie de Egmond espieng the Frenchmen bent to march awaie with the spoile of the countrie, cut betwéene them and home, placing his battels in such order, that the Frenchmen had no waie to passe, but vpon the s [...]nds betwéene the towne and the sea. Whereas by good chance laie a great fleet of quéene Maries ships of warre,The English ships annoie the French with gunshot, &c. within the danger of whose gunshot the Frenchmen had no shift but to passe as their iournie laie. And so being forced either to fa|mish or to fight at disaduantage, monsieur the Ther|mes without staieng anie longer, caused his vant|gard to passe ouer the riuer somewhat néere the towne, to auoid the shot of the English ships. And staieng vpon the further side for the residue of his battels, there came such thicke haileshot of artillerie out of the towne on the one side, and from the Eng|glish ships on the other side, that there was a full batterie made vpon the Frenchmen on all sides, which they neuerthelesse abode, without breaking or|der for the time, when suddenlie appéered before them two great troops of horssemen;A veliant on|set giuen vpon the French|men by coun|tie Egmond. of fiftéene hundred a péece, part swart Rutters, and part Burgognians, whereof the one in front, and the other in flanke, gaue strong charges vpon the French vantgard, who being well backed with their other ba [...]tels (wher|of the most part then had passed the riuer) stoutlie re|pelled these two first troops, though not without losse of manie their best soldiors.