Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the same time Ranulfe earle of Chester, William earle of Albermarle, Matth. Paris. The earle of Chester. William earle Fer|rers, Robert de Ueipount, Brian de Lisle, William de Cantlow, Philip de Marc, Robert de Gaugi, Fouks de Brent, & others assembled their powers, and comming to Mountsorell beside Loughborough in Leicestershire,The castell of Mountsorell besieged. besieged the castell there, the cap|teine whereof was one Henrie de Braibroke. This Henrie defended the place right manfully,Henrie Brai|broke. and doub|ting to be in distres by long siege, sent with all spéed to the earle of Winchester,Saer de Quincie erle of Win|chester. Saer de Quincie as then being at London with the Frenchmen, requi|ring him to send some succour to remoue the siege. Herevpon the earle of Winchester, to whom that castell belonged, required Lewes that some conue|nient power might be sent, whereby the siege might be remooued. Wherefore vpon councell taken with deliberate aduise, it was ordeined that an armie should be sent thither with all spéed, not onlie to raise the siege, but also to subdue that countrie vnto the o|bedience of Lewes. Herwith there went out of Lon|don 600 knights, and with them aboue twentie thou|sand men in armour, gréedie (as it seemed) to haue the spoile of other mens goods.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Their chiefe capteins were these: Saer de Quin|cie earle of Winchester, Robert Fitzwater, and o|thers, and they did set forward vpon the last of Aprill, which was the mondaie before the Ascension daie, passing through S. Albons, where they lodged the first night, and so to Dunstable, and by the waie such souldiers as were vsed to spoile and pillage, plaied their parts, not sparing to rob and ransacke as well religious houses as other. From Dunstable kée|ping on their iournie northwards, at length they came to Mountsorell, but the earle of Chester and the other lords, aduertised of their approch,The earle of Chester rai|seth his siege. were retired before to Notingham, determining there to abide, till they might vnderstand what waie the enimies would take.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the meane time the earle of Winchester and the other barons, finding their enimies departed and the siege raised, determined foorthwith to go vnto Lincolne, where Gilbert de Gaunt and other had kept siege a long time before the castell, but yet in vaine. Bernewell. For there was a noble ladie within that ca|stell named Nichola, who demeaned hir selfe so vali|antlie in resisting all assaults and enterprises, which the enimies that besieged hir could attempt by anie meanes against hir, that they rather lost than wan honour and estimation at hir hands dailie. Therefore Robert Fitzwater and the other leaders of this ar|mie, to the end they might get that castell out of hir and other their enimies hands, tooke their iour|nie forward, and passing through the vale of Beau|uere, all things there that came to sight fell into the hands of the greedie souldiers. For the French foot|men, which were as it had béene the scum & reffuse of their countrie, least nothing vntouched that they might lay hands vpon, not sparing church or church|yard, nor hallowed place more than common or pro|phane. For they were so poore and ragged,The poore estate of the French sol|diers. that they had scarse anie tatters to couer their priuie parts withall. Finallie comming vnto Lincolne, they as|saulted the castell with all maner of engins, and as|saied by all waies possible whereby they hoped to ad|uance their purpose.