Cooped up in its narrow streets and attacked at once by the Earl and the garrison, the barons fled in utter rout; the Count of Perche fell on the field, Robert Fitz-Walter was taken prisoner.

Lewis at once retreated on London and called for aid from France.

But a more terrible defeat crushed his remaining hopes.

A small English fleet which set sail from Dover under Hubert de Burgh fell boldly on the reinforcements which were crossing under escort of Eustace the Monk, a well-known freebooter of the Channel.

Some incidents of the fight light up for us the naval warfare of the time.