Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the Fift — John Shaqi
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the FiftHolinshed, Raphael
History
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the Fift
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
Thus when the Englishmen had seuered themselues into garrisons, the
duke of Alanson, the bastard of Orleance, Ione le Pusell, the lord
Gawcourt, and diuerse other capteins of the Frenchmen, came the twelfe
daie of Iune, before the towne of Iargeaux, where the earle of Suffolke
and his two brethren soiourned, & gaue to the towne so fierce an
assault on thrée parts, that Poiton de Sentrailes, perceiuing an other
part void of defendants, scaled the wals on that side, and without
difficultie tooke the towne, and slue sir Alexander Poole, brother
to the erle, and manie other, to the number of two hundred. But the
Frenchmen gained not much thereby, for they lost thrée hundred good men
and more. Of the Englishmen fortie were taken, with the earle and his
other brother named Iohn.
[Sidenote: Prisoners slaine by the French as they were taken.]
The Frenchmen, as they returned to Orleance, fell at variance for
their prisoners, and slue them all, sauing the earle and his brother.
Shortlie after, the same French armie came to Mehun, where they tooke
the tower at the bridge foot, and put therein a garrison. From thence
they remooued to Baugencie, and constreined them that were within the
towne to yéeld, vpon condition they might depart with bag and baggage.
At the same place there came to the duke of Alanson, the new constable
Arthur of Britaine, and with him the lord Dalbret, and other. Also
after this the earle of Vandosme came to them, so that by the dailie
repaire of such as assembled togither to strengthen the French part,
they were in all to the number betwéene twentie and thrée and twentie
thousand men.
[Sidenote: _Nichol. Giles._]
[Sidenote: Fiue thous[=a]d saith _Hall_.]
All which being once ioined in one armie, shortlie after fought with
the lord Talbot (who had with him not past six thousand men) néere
vnto a village in Beausse called Pataie: at which battell the charge
was giuen by the French so vpon a sudden, that the Englishmen had not
leisure to put themselues in arraie, after they had put vp their stakes
before their archers, so that there was no remedie but to fight at
aduenture. This battell continued by the space of thrée long houres;
for the Englishmen, though they were ouerpressed with multitude of
their enimies, yet they neuer fled backe one foot, till their capteine
the lord Talbot was sore wounded at the backe, and so taken.
[Sidenote: Great losse on the English side. The lords Talbot, Scales,
and Hungerford taken.]
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