dus, the statement of Theodoric Niemius is
quoted, who says (unquestionably without authority)
that Henry advanced from Harfleur with sixty
thousand men, besides two thousand in attendance on
the carriages. He affirms that the French had one
hundred thousand men; among whom were one thousand
Italians, commanded by Buligard, who had long
governed Genoa in favour of the French. He says,
moreover, that more than five thousand five hundred
French nobles were slain; and fifteen hundred taken
prisoners, and carried to England.]

[Footnote 140: Hume, with his usual inaccuracy,
asserts that the French army at Agincourt was
headed as well by the Dauphin, as by all the other
princes of the blood. The Dauphin wished to assist
his countrymen, when they resolved to intercept the
invaders; but, as we are expressly told by Le Fevre
(c. 59), was not suffered to join the rendezvous.
This is not the only mistake into which Hume has
fallen in his account of this battle. In one
paragraph he reports Henry to have been under the
necessity of marching by land from Harfleur to
Calais, in order to reach a place of safety from
which he might transport his soldiers back to
England; in another paragraph he represents him
(with the same temerity which had been evinced by
his predecessors before the battles of Poictiers
and of Cressy) to have ventured without any object
of moment, and merely for the _sake of plunder_, so
far into the enemy's country as to leave himself no
retreat. He tells us, moreover, that "Henry was
master of fourteen thousand prisoners," whom he
afterwards says that the King "carried with him to
Paris, thence to England." Hume took this also
without inquiry. Walsingham says, "Henry took (as
they say--ut ferunt,--as though even that estimate
required to be su