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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Neuerthelesse as the booke that belonged to Berne| [...]ell abbie saith) there was not any of them hanged, [...] sauing one arcubalister onelie, whome the king had brought vp top a child. But howsoeuer the king dealt with them after they were yéelded, true it is (as by the same booke it appeareth there had beene no siege in those daies more earnestlie inforced, nor more ob|stinatlie defended: for after that all the limmes of the castell had beene reuersed and throwne downe, they kept the maister tower, till halfe thereof was also ouerthrowne, and after kept the other halfe, till through famine they were constreined to yéeld, ha|uing nothing but horsseflesh and water to susteine their liues withall.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Here is to be remembred, that whilest the siege laie thus at Rochester, Hugh de Boues a valiant knight, but full of pride and arrogancie, a French|man borne, but banished out of his countrie, came downe to Calice with an huge number of men of warre and souldiers to come to the aid of king Iohn. But as he was vpon the sea with all his people, mea|ning to land at Douer, by a sudden tempest which ro [...]e at that instant, [...] the said Hugh with all his com|panie was drowned by sh [...]pwracke. So [...]e after the [...] of the same Hugh with the carcases of other innumerable, both of men, women, and children, were found not farre from Yeu [...]ou [...]h, and all along that coast. There were of them in all fortie thousand, as saith Matthew Paris, for of all those which he brought with him, there was (as it is said) not one man le [...]t aliue.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king (as the [...]ame went, but h [...]w [...] I know not) had giuen by charter vnto the [...] Hugh de Boues, the whole countrie of Northfolke, so that he ment to haue expelled the old inhabitants, and to haue peopled it with strangers. But whether this was so or not, sure it is that he was verie sorowfull for the losse of this [...] and aid which thus perished in the seas, though it happened verie well for his sub|iects of England, that should haue béene fore oppres|sed by such multitude of strangers, which for the most part must néeds haue liued vpon the countrie, to the vtter vndooing of the inhabitants wheresoeuer they should haue come.

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