In numbers, in wealth, the French people far surpassed their neighbours over the Channel.

England can hardly have counted more than four millions of inhabitants, France boasted of twenty.
The clinging of our kings to their foreign dominions is explained by the fact that their subjects in Gascony, Aquitaine, and Poitou must have equalled in number their subjects in England.

There was the same disproportion in the wealth of the two countries and, as men held then, in their military resources.

Edward could bring only eight thousand men-at-arms to the field.

Philip, while a third of his force was busy elsewhere, could appear at the head of forty thousand.