Raynold Cobham, and their company rode out on the one side and wasted and exiled
the country, as the lord Harcourt had done; and the king ever rode between these
battles, and every night they lodged together.
OF THE GREAT ASSEMBLY THAT THE FRENCH KING MADE TO RESIST THE KING OF ENGLAND
Thus by the Englishmen was brent, exiled, robbed, wasted and pilled the good,
plentiful country of Normandy. Then the French king sent for the lord John of
Hainault, who came to him with a great number: also the king sent for other
men of arms, dukes, earls, barons, knights and squires, and assembled together
the greatest number of people that had been seen in France a hundred year before.
He sent for men into so far countries, that it was long or they came together,
wherefore the king of England did what him list in the mean season. The French
king heard well what he did, and sware and said how they should siever return
again unfought withal, and that such hurts and damages as they had done should
be dearly revenged;
