ed their feelings of philanthropy, and their
abhorrence of cruelty, to dictate their sentence in
this case, the Author cannot refer to their works
without appealing from them to the facts as they
stand in those undisputed records which were
accessible alike to them and to ourselves. On this
subject Rapin, Carte, Holinshed, Nicolas, with
others, may be consulted.]

Among the many instances of heroism which occurred during the battle,
Henry's conduct was particularly distinguished. He fought on foot like
a lion, as our annalists express themselves, and was throughout the
noblest example of valour. Especially was his gallant rescue of his
brother, the Duke of Gloucester, remembered with admiration. That
prince had been wounded by a dagger, and thrown on the ground by the
Duke of Alencon and his soldiers, when Henry rushed between them, and
defended his brother till he was removed from the conflict. This noble
deed nearly cost him his life; for, stooping down to raise his brother,
the Duke of Alencon, or one of his men, struck him such a blow as (p. 183)
to break off a part of his crown.

The loss on both sides has been very variously reported. Probably of
the French not less than ten thousand fell in that field of
blood;[139] of the English perhaps less than one-tenth of that number.
But France did not on that day reckon her loss by the number of the
slain; the chief of her chivalry[140] and nobility fell there. (p. 184)
On the English side the only men of note who were slain in the battle
were the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk, Sir Richard Keghley, Thomas
Fitz-Henry, John de Peniton, and David Gamme.[141]

[Footnote 139: It is quite impossible to reconcile
the different accounts of the loss on the part of
the English. Walsingham speaks of thirty only
having fallen; De Fenin reports them to have been
four or five hundred; whilst Monstrelet raises the
number to sixteen hundred.

On the part of the French, Le Fevre says, that from
a hundred to six score princes fell, and about
seven or eight thousand of noble blood. In the
Annales Ecclesiastici of Baronius, continued by
Raynal