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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus whiles the barons with the Frenchmen were much busied about the siege of Lincolne castell, W. Marshall earle of Penbroke, by the aduise of the le|gat Gualo or Walo, and of Peter bishop of Win|chester, and other of the councell with king Henrie, caused summons to be giuen to all capteins and chateleins on the kings part,Summons to raise an ar|mie for the king to be at Newarke vp|on mondaie in Whitsunwéeke, with such power as they might make, from thence to march to Lincolne, there to raise the siege, and deliuer the countrie from imminent oppression. Wherevpon there assembled at the daie and place prefixed, a great puissance of people desirous to fight for the defense of their coun|trie against the Frenchmen and other aduersaries, rebels to the pope, and excommunicated persons, so that when the muster was taken, there was num|bered 400 knights, 250 crossebowes, besides demi|lances and horssemen in great numbers, which for need might haue supplied and serued in stéed of men of armes, being verie well furnished for the purpose, and armed at all points.