The same Sunday, as the king of England came from mass, such as had been sent forth returned and shewed the king what they had seen and done, and said:  ’Sir, we think surely there is now no more appearance of any of our enemies.’  Then the king sent to search how many were slain and what they were.  Sir Raynold Cobham and Sir Richard Stafford with three heralds went to search the field and country:  they visited all them that were slain and rode all day in the fields, and returned again to the host as the king was going to supper.  They made just report of that they had seen, and said how there were eleven great princes dead, fourscore banners, twelve hundred knights, and more than thirty thousand other.[1] The Englishmen kept still their field all that night:  on the Monday in the morning the king prepared to depart:  the king caused the dead bodies of the great lords to be taken up and conveyed to Montreuil, and there buried in holy ground, and made a cry in the country to grant truce for three days, to the intent that they of the country might search the field of Cressy to bury the dead bodies.

[1] Another text makes the loss of persons below the rank of knight 15,000 or 16,000, including the men of the towns.  Both estimates must be greatly exaggerated.  Michael of Northburgh says that 1542 were killed in the battle and about 2000 on the next day.  The great princes killed were the king of Bohemia, the duke of Lorraine, the earls of Alencon, Flanders, Blois, Auxerre, Harcourt, Saint-Pol, Aumale, the grand prior of France and the archbishop of Rouen.

Then the king went forth and came before the town of Montreuil-by-the-sea, and his marshals ran toward Hesdin and Brent Waben and Serain, but they did nothing to the castle, it was so strong and so well kept.  They lodged that night on the river of Hesdin towards Blangy.  The next day they rode toward Boulogne and came to the town of Wissant:  there the king and the prince lodged, and tarried there a day to refresh his men, and on the Wednesday the king came before the strong town of Calais.

THE BATTLE OF POITIERS

Of the great host that the French king brought to the battle of Poitiers

After the taking of the castle of Romorantin and of them that were therein, the prince then and his company rode as they did before, destroying the country, approaching to Anjou and to Touraine.  The French king, who was at Chartres, departed and came to Blois and there tarried two days, and then to Amboise and the next day to Loches:  and then he heard how that the prince was at Touraine[1] and how that he was returning by Poitou:  ever the Englishmen were coasted by certain expert knights of France, who alway made report to the king what the Englishmen did.  Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had