r manner
than by attributing it to the transcriber; for it is notorious that
Henry quitted England, besieged and captured Harfleur, and fought the
battle of Agincourt, in the _third_ year of his reign. The account of
that expedition is so differently related from that in the text, that
it is here given at length.

"The kyng with alle his hoste seiled over the see with ij m^{l}
shippis and mo; and the xvj day of August a litle from Harflete he
landid: and the Saturday next after thassumpcion of oure lady he leide
siege about Harflete, and contynued the sege unto the Sonday next
before the fest of seint Michel, upon which Sonday the towne of
Harflete was delyvered to the king, that was the xxij day of
Septembre. But it is to wite, that on Tuesday bifore, that was the
xvij day of Septembre, at xij of the belle wythynne nyght, the lordes
that were capteynes and governours of the towne, that is to sey the
lord Gaucourt, the lord Tutvill, and mo other lordes, senten out an
haraude of armes unto the duke of Clarence, praiyng him at the
reverence of God that he wolde send to the kyng, bisechyng hym that he
wolde of his high and gracious lordship, graunt them leve to trete
with what persones that the kyng wolde assigne to them. And the kyng
at the reverence of God, and at there request, assigned therle of
Dorset, the lord Fitz Hugh, and S^{r}. Thomas of Erpyngham, to here
what thei wolde desire. And thei desired that the kyng wold not werre
upon them fro that houre at mydnyght, unto the Sonday next after the
fest of seint Michel; and but it were so that thei were rescued by
bataile of the Frensshe kyng or with the dolphyn by that day, thei to
yelde the towne to the kyng, and thei to have theire lives and goodes.
And the kyng sent them worde that if thei wolde delyver the towne on
the morwe next after the houre of mydnyght aforseid, without any
condicion, he wolde accepte it, and in any other wise he bad them seke
no trete. And yet the Frensshe lordes praied oure lordes to biseke the
kyng at the reverence of God and of oure lady, that he wolde graunte
them that same Tuesday nyght, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
and the Sonday til an houre after none: and in that meane tyme the
lordes that were capitayns of the towne, to come to the kyng with xxij
knyghts and squyers with them, of the moost sufficient men withyn the
towne, and thei to be sworen openly afore alle the people upon Goddis
body. But it so were that the Frenssh