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Let me go back now to reading from Ian Moore, who gives us the most detail all about that day, and then we'll sort of round up. So Friday, the 25th of

October 1415, the feast of St Crispin and St. Crispian. Maltimer says, quote,

It is unlikely that Henry slept. At the best of times, he needed very little rest. In the hours

before dawn, he probably stayed in his house in Maisoncel, discussing the battle ahead with members

of his council, hearing reports

of the attack of the Count of Richemont, and waiting for the return of the scouts he had

sent to spy out the land during the night. Before dawn wearing his armour, he attended his

first mass of the day, sung by the priests of the royal chapel. He heard two more masses, then

rose from his knees, and lifted his helmet and spurs.

He ordered an esquire to take ten men at arms and twenty archers, and to guard the houses

of the baggage wagons, which would remain in Maison cell.

They would also guard the high-status pages and the army and the sick who could not fight.

Outside it was growing light.

It was time for the army to move out.

Henry called for his horse, a small white one, and rode with his councillors through the mud in the village towards the battlefield.

The sodden remains of the overnight bonfires were around them. Captains were raising and ordering the men who had sheltered in the tents and in the barns and in the gardens and orchards. Henry

instructed his trumpeteers to remain quiet. He did not want the French to hear the English,

nor to break the solemn air about the camp, just as the English had passed the night in disciplined

silence, so now they grouped together to face the French without a sound. Further up the field,

about three-quarters of a mile away,

the French were also deploying their men. Like the English, few of them had slept. Some of the

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