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A33325 The life and death of the thrice noble and illustrious Edvvard, surnamed the Black Prince son to our victorious King Edward the Third, by whom he was made the First Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter / by Samuel Clark ... Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. 1673 (1673) Wing C4532; ESTC R19883 15,827 34

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and near being troden to Death had not the Lord Iohn of Henault Earle of Beaumont rescued and remounted him The French also about him out of a loyal desire of his preservation almost against his will conveyed him out of the Field who rather seemed desirous to end his dayes in so Noble company The King being departed out of the Field and the matter being divulged in both the Armies it soon put a period to this bloody medly wherin as yet none were taken to mercy but all were put to the Sword The French King himself with a small Company got to Bray in the night and approaching the walls and the Guard asking who was there He answered The Fortune of France By his Voice he was known and thereupon received into the Town with the Tears and Lamentations of his People The rest of his Army sought to save themselves by flight whom the English warily fighting upon the defensive and loth to hazard so glorious a Victory by breaking their rancks to pursue the enemy too far in the night which was now come on suffered them to be followed only by their own feares contenting themselves to make good their ground by standing still upon their Guard according to the Rules of true Martial Discipline knowing that there were so many of the Enemy escaped as might yet serve to overwhelm their weary Army with their multitude Our King Edward seeing the Coast for the present cleared of all his Enemies came down from the Hill with his intire Battel towards his Victorious Son and most affectionatly embracing and kissing him said Fair Son God send you good perseverance to such prosperous beginnings You have acquitted your self right Nobly and are well worthy to have a Kingdom intrusted with your Government for your Valor To which the most noble and Magnanimous of Princes replyed with silence most humbly falling on his Knees at the feet of his triumphant Father As for other things concerning this famous Victory I refer my Reader to my Narrative of it in the Life and Death of King Edward the third contenting my self here only to describe it so far forth as our Noble Prince was therein a prime Actor and without which I could not have given a just Account of his life Immediately after this Victory our King marched with his Army through France and sat down before Calice But as the splendor of the Sun darkens the stars so did the Presence of the Father obscure the Actions and Vertues of the Son that I read no more of him till the year 1355. At which time our King was informed that John the now King of France his father Philip being dead had given the Dutchy of Aquitain to Charles the Dolphin whereupon King Edward being much incensed conferred the same upon his own Son the Prince of Wales commanding him to defend his right therein with the Sword against his Adversaries He was also appointed by Parliament to go into Gascoin with a thousand Men at Arms two thousand Archers and a great number of Welch-men who accompanied their Prince And in Iune following he set forward with three hundred Sail of ships attended with the Earls of Warwick Suffolk Salisbury and Oxford and the Lords Chandois Audley Beufort Lile with Sir Robert Knowls Sir Francis Hall with many others With these arriving in Aquitain he betook himself to do things worthy of his Name and courage He did wonders in France For with his Victorious Army he recovered multitudes of Towns and Prisoners He entred Guienne passed over Languedoc to Tholouse Narbone Bruges without any encounter sacks spoiles and destroyes where he goes and loaden with Booties returns to Burdeaux In the mean time the French King gathered all the Power he possibly could and the Prince the Winter being spent sets forth upon a new Expedition He had in his Army about eight Thousand brave expert and well Disciplined Souldiers and with them he advanced through Perigort and Limosin into the bosom of France even up to the very Gates of Bruges in Bery the terrour of his Name flying before to his great advantage Thus satisfied for the present he wheeled about with purpose to return by Remorantine in Blasois which Town he took and so through the Country of Tourain Poictou and Xantoyn to his chief City of Burdeaux But Iohn King of France having assembled a great and compleat Army followed close and about the City of Poictiers overtook our invincible Prince Where the Armies with the odds of six to one against the English drew near each other two Cardinals sent from Pope Clement mediated as they had done before to take up the quarrel But the French King supposing that he had his enemy now at his mercy would accept of no other conditions but that the Prince should deliver him four Hostages and as vanquished render up himself and his Army to his discretion The Prince was content to restore unto him all the places which he had taken from him but without prejudice to his Honour wherein he said he stood accountable to his Father and his Country But the French King would abate nothing of his former demands as being assured of the Victory as he supposed and thereupon was ready instantly to set upon the Prince who seeing himself reduced to this strait took wha advantage he could of the ground and by his diligence got the benefit of certain Vines Shrubs and bushes upon that part where he was like to be assaulted whereby to pester and intangle the French Horse which he saw was ready to come furiously upon him The success answered his expectation For the Cavalry of his enemie in their full carrier were so intangled and incumbred among the Vines that the Princes Archers galled and annoyed them at their pleasure For the French King to give the honour of the Day to his Cavalry made use of them only without the help of his Infantry Hence it was that they being disordered and put to rout his whole Army came to be utterly defeated Here if ever the Prince and his English gave full proof of their Valour and undaunted courage never giveing over till they had wholly routed all the three French Battels the least of which exceeded all the Princes numbers The King himself fighting Valiantly and Philip his youngest Son who by such his boldness and zeal defended his distressed Father as it purchased unto him the Honourable Surname of Hardy were taken Prisoners Those of the Princes side whose Valour and great deeds was most conspicuous were the Earles of Warwick Suffolk Salisbury Oxford and Stafford The Lords Chandois Cobham Spencer Audley Berkley Basset c. and of Gascoin Subjects to the Crown of England The Capital de Beuf The Lords Lumier Chaumont with others of inferior Title but not of unequal Valour Among others Iames Lord Audley wan immortal Renown at this bloody Battel in which he received many Wounds and was rewarded by the Noble Prince with a Gift of five Hundred Marks Land