ere on horseback
saved themselves, but of them who were on foot the greater part
were put to death."

Elmham thus records the transaction:--

"The English, already wearied, and for the most part destitute of
arms fit for a charge, when the French were arraying themselves
for battle with a view to the renewal of the conflict, fearing
lest the persons they had taken should rush upon them in the
struggle, slew many of them, though noble, with the sword. (p. 179)
The King then, by a herald, commanded those French soldiers who
were still occupying the field either to come to battle at once,
or speedily to depart out of his sight; assuring them that, if
they should again array themselves for a renewed engagement, both
they and the prisoners yet remaining should perish without mercy,
with the most dire vengeance which the English could inflict."

Fabyan's account differs from that of other writers only in one
particular; he represents the retirement of the French, who had
rallied for a renewal of the conflict, to have been the result of the
message sent to them by the Duke of Orleans and his fellow-prisoners,
in their panic on hearing Henry's mandate, which seemed to put their
lives into immediate jeopardy.

"When the King, by power and grace of God more than by force of
man, had gotten this triumphant victory, and returned his people
from the chase of his enemies, tidings were brought to him that a
new host of Frenchmen were coming towards him. Wherefore he
commanded his people to be embattled; and, that done, made
proclamation through the host that every man should slay his
prisoners: by reason of which proclamation the Duke of Orleans,
and the other lords of France, were in such fear, that anon, by
the licence of the King, they sent such word unto the said host
that they withdrew."

The contemporary author whose work is translated by Laboureur, having
in impassioned language spoken of the "eternal reproach, and ever
deplorable calamity of the miserable battle of Agincourt," instead of
attempting to make the English partake in any degree of the disgrace
which on that day stained the annals of France, tells us that Henry,
believing a great body of the vanguard, who had been broken through,
were running, not in flight, but to join the rest of the army (p. 180)
and renew the attack, gave orders for al