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Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this meane time it chanced, that Henrie earle of Namure, Rog. Houed. The earle of Namure. brother to Philip earle of Flanders, and one Peter of Doway, a right valiant knight, with his brother that was the elect bishop of Cambrey, were taken prisoners in a skirmish, and presented to the French king. Wherevpon the cardinall of Ca|pua (being at the same time the popes legat in France) interdicted that realme for the taking of the same elect of Cambrey,France inter|dicted. Normandie interdicted. & also all Normandie, for the deteining of the bishop of Beauuois in prison (who had laine there a long time, & was taken in the field after such manner as is before rehearsed) so that the French king was glad to restore the elect of Cambrey to his libertie. And likewise king Iohn deliuered the bishop of Beauuois, Rog. Houed. who paied two thousand marks, besides expenses of diet during the time of his captiuitie, and furthermore tooke an oth, that he should neuer after beare armour in the war against any christian or christians.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time,Arthur duke of Britaine made knight. king Philip made Arthur duke of Britaine knight, and receiued of him his ho|mage for Aniou, Poictiers, Maine, Touraine, and Britaine. Also somewhat before the time that the truce should expire; to wit, on the morrow after the feast of the Assumption of our ladie, and also the day next following, the two kings talked by commissio|ners, in a place betwixt the townes of Buteuant and Guleton. Within three daies after, they came to|gither personallie, and communed at full of the va|riance depending betwéene them. But the French king shewed himselfe stiffe and hard in this treatie, demanding the whole countrie of Ueulquessine to be restored vnto him,The French kings de|mand. as that which had béene gran|ted by Geffrey earle of Aniou, the father of king Henrie the second, vnto Lewes le Grosse, to haue his aid then against king Stephan. Moreouer, he de|manded, that Poictiers, Aniou, Maine, and Tou|raine, should be deliuered and wholie resigned vnto Arthur duke of Britaine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But these, & diuerse other requests which he made, king Iohn would not in any wise grant vnto, and so they departed without conclusion of any agrée|ment. Therfore diuerse earls and barons of France, which before that time had serued king Richard, re|paired vnto king Iohn, and tooke an oth to assist him, and not to agrée with the French king without his consent: and he likewise sware vnto them, not to make peace with the French king, except they were therein comprised. In the moneth of September, Ione king Iohns sister, wife to Raimond earle of S. Giles, and somtime quéene of Sicile, died at Ro|uen, and was buried at Fonteuerard. The French king also tooke diuerse townes and castels, but a|mongst other the castell of Balun, and raced the wals thereof downe to the ground,Balun [...] wherewith Wil|liam de Roches, generall of the armie of Arthur duke of Britaine, was greatlie offended, and did so much by his drift, that shortlie after a peace was concluded betwixt king Iohn and his nephue duke Arthur, though the same serued but to small purpose.A peace be|twixt king Iohn & his nephue.

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