taken or (as other saie) betraied, and deliuered into their enimies
hands: beside which twaine, William Crispine, William Ferreis, Robert
Estoutuille the elder, with foure hundreth men of armes, and to the
number of 10. thousand footmen were taken. As for the number that were
slaine in this battell, there is none that declareth the certeintie: but
yet it is reported by diuers writers, that no one battell in those daies
was sorer fought, nor with greater bloudshed either in Normandie, or
elsewhere.

[Sidenote: _Gemeticensis._] Gemeticensis sheweth breefelie, that king
Henrie was offended with his brother duke Robert, for alienating the
duchie of Normandie his inheritance, & for wasting his reuenues with
such riotous demeanour as he vsed, so that he left himselfe nothing but
the citie of Roan, which he had not passed to haue giuen awaie also, if
the citizens would thereto haue granted their consent. The king (I saie)
taking displeasure herewith, went ouer into Normandie, and assuming a
mightie power, first besieged Baieux, & then halfe destroieng it, he
tooke it by force. After this he tooke Caen also, and then besieged a
castell called Tenerchbray perteining to the earle of Mortaigne, during
which siege his brother Robert, and the said earle of Mortaigne came
with a great multitude of people in hope to be reuenged of the king, and
to chase him out of the countrie. But the punishment of God fell so vpon
them, that they were both taken, and manie of their freends with them,
as Robert de Estoutuille, William de Crispine, and others, who were
brought before king Henrie as prisoners. ¶ Thus did almightie God grant
vnto the king a notable victorie without bloodshed, for he lost not a
man: as for his aduersaries, there died in the field not past three
score persons.

[Sidenote: _Wil. Mal._] This séemeth also to agree with that which Wil.