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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Whilest both these kings were thus bent to powre out their malice, and to ease their stomachs with dint of sword, there came messengers from the pope,Messengers from the pope. exhorting him vnto peace and quietnesse, but his ex|hortation little auailed. For they regarding it little or nothing, immediatlie as the truce was expired, got them abroad into the field, & king Richard drew towards Isoldune,Isoldune a towne situat in the confines of Berrie, whither it was reported that the French king meant to come: and there staid for him a whole day togither. But the French king hearing that king Richard was there to looke for him, thought i [...] best not to come there at all. Wherfore king Richard went the next daie vnto a castell called Brison, and tooke it vpon his first approch. Then went he to a towne called Nouencourt, and perceiuing the same to be strong and well manned, tooke not in hand to assaile it till the third daie after his comming thi|ther, at what time he so inclosed the same round a|bout with diligent watch and ward, that a cat could not haue escaped out of the place,Nouencour [...] yeeldeth to K. Richard. Albemarle besieged. Matt. West. Polydor. neither by daie nor night, but that she should haue béene espied. They within being put in feare herewith, yeelded vp the towne the daie next following, in which meane time the French king besieged Albermarle.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon king Richard, hauing left a garrison of souldiers in Nouencourt, came to raise the eni|mie from his siege, & setting vpon the Frenchmen, there began a sharpe fight: but the Englishmen being wearie with trauell of their passed iournie, and hauing rashlie entred into the battell, were not able to indure the Frenchmens violence, so that (not without great losse) they were constreined to re|tire with swift flight, or (to saie the truth) to run a|waie a maine pase. The French king hauing thus chased his enimies, returned to assault Albemarle, woone the castell by force, and the towne by composi|tion, permitting the garrison there to depart with all their armour. This doone, he ruinated the castell flat to the ground. Rog. Houed The earle of Leicesters offer for his ransome. Robert earle of Leicester offered to the French king a thousand marks sterling for his ransome, and to quite claime to him and his heires for euer all the right which he had to the castell of Pascie, with the appurtenances, and to get a confir|mation thereof for him both of the pope, and of the king of England: but for that the warre still lasted, the French king tooke a respite in answering this offer, neuerthelesse afterwards in the yeare next in|suing, he tooke it, and so the earle was set at libertie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Not long after this foresaid repulse, the king of England hauing refreshed his souldiers with some rest after their great trauell, went to Million,Million [...] and rased. and giuing assault to the towne wan it at the first brunt, and made it plaine with the earth. Then was a mo|tion made for peace betwixt the two kings,A motion for peace. being now wearied with long wars: whereof when earle Iohn was aduertised, who (as it should séeme by some writers) hauing tarried with the French king till this present, began now to doubt least if any agrée|ment were made, he might happilie be betraied of the French king by couenants that should passe be|twixt them: he determined therefore with himselfe to commit his whole safetie to his naturall brother, and to no man else, perceiuing that the French king made not so great accompt of him after the losse of his castels in England, as he had doone before.

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