Description:Shakespeare read of the battle of Agincourt in these words.
In working both with Holinshed and Hall's chronicles Shakespeare took pieces from both. The description of the mines at the siege of Harfleur was found in Holinshed, but this is not recorded by Hall. In describing the lists of victims of the battle of Agincourt Shakespeare's speeches are very close to Holinshed's text. Henry V ,4,8, lines 73-105.
From line 30 [second line on this image] it reads: There were taken prisoners Charles, duke of Orleans, nephew to the French King, John duke of Bourbon, the Lord Boucicault, one of the marshals of France (he after died in England), with a number of other lords, knights and esquires at the least fifteen hundred, besides the common people. There were slain in all of the French part to the number of ten thousand men, whereof were princes, and noblemen bearing banners one hundred [and] twenty-six, to these of knights, esquires and gentlemen so many as made up the number of eight thousand and four hundred (of the which five hundred were dubbed knights the night before the battle)...[continues]
Of Englishmen there died at this battle Edward, Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk, Sir Richard Kiklie and Davie Gamme esquire, and of all other not above five and twenty persons as some do report, but other writers of greater credit affirm that there were slain above five or six hundred persons...
Full title: Raphael Holinshed, The first and second volumes of chronicles[The thirde volume, etc.]... Now newlie augmented and continued... to the yeare 1586 by Iohn Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others... [London] at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke, 1587.