The Brut, or The chronicles of England. Edited from Ms. Raw. B171, Bodleian Library, &c., by Friedrich W. D. Brie, with introduction, notes, and glossary ...

[The Battle of Crecy.]

¶ Þerfore, þe xxvj. day of auguste, King Edward in a felde faste by Creyscy, hauyng iij. bataillis of englisshe men, counttryd and mette wiþ Philip of Valeys, hauyng [Cambridge, No. 174 178a] wiþ him iiij. batailles, of þe wiche þe leste passid gretely þe nombre of þe Englisshe peple. & whan þes ij. ostes metten togedir, þer fil oppon him þe King of Beme, þe Duke of Loroyne and erles also of Flaundres, Dalasoun, Bloys, Harecourt, Aumerle, and Nyvers, & meny oþer erlis, barouns, lordes, Kingeȝ, & men of armes, þe noumbre of a Ml V. C. xlij., wiþout foet men & oþer men in armevre, þat were noþing rekened. ¶ And for al þis, þe same vnglorious Philip wiþdrowe him, wiþe þe residue of al his peple; wherfore it was seyd in commune among

his owne peple 'Nostre beall Retret,' that is for to sey, 'Our faire wiþdraweþ hym.' þan Kyng Edward & our Englyssh men, þankyng God for suche a victorye, after hire grete labour, takyng to hem al þyng nedeful for her sustenaunce & sauyng of hire lyf ferdred of hire enemys, rested hem þere. ¶ And ful erly in þe morwe, after þe Frensshe men wiþ an houge passyng oste come aȝen for to ȝeue batayll & fiȝte wiþ þe Englisshe men, wiþ whom metten & countreden þe Erles of Warwyk, Norhampton & Norfolk, wiþ hire companye & slowen ij. Ml, & token meny prisoners of þe gentils of ham; and þe remenaunt of þe same oste fled iij. mile þens.