if there were any bodies of French colle&ed to-gether. The quota of troops, from Rouen and Beau vais, had, this Sunday morning, left Abbeville and St. Ricquier in Ponthieu, to join the French army, and were ignorant of the defeat of the preceding even-ing : they met this detachment and, thinking they muft be French, haftened to join them. As foon as the Englilh found who they were, they fell upon them ; and there was a (harp engage-ment ; but the French foon turned their backs, and "fled in great diforder. There were flain in this flight in the open fields, under hedges arid bufhesr, upwards of feven thoufand; and had it been clear weather, not one foul would have efcaped. A little time afterwards, this fame party fell in with the archbifhop of Rouen and the great prior of France, who were alfo ignorant of the difcom-fiture of the French ; for they had been informed that the king was not to fight before Sunday. Here began a freih battle ; for thofe two lords were well attended by good men at arms : ' however, they could not withftahd the Englifh, but were almoft all flain, with the two chiefs who commanded them; very few efcaping. In the courfe of the morning, the Englifh found . many Frenchmen who had loft their road on the Saturday, and had lain in the open fields, not' knowing what was become of the king, or their own * leaders. The Englifh put to the fword all they met : and it has been affured to me for fa6t, that of foot foldiers, fent from the cities, towns and munici^ • palities, 171