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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 In the meane time the lords de Pons, Mirabeau and Mortaigne suddenlie reuolted, & submitted them|selues to the French king, with the vicount of To|wars, and all other the lords and knights of Poictou, and the marches therabouts, that not long before had procured king Henrie to come ouer to their aid. The citie of Xainctes was likewise rendred to him imme|diatlie vpon king Henries departure from thence. At which season the French king meant to haue fol|lowed him to Blaie, but by reason of a great death which chanced in his armie, he was constreined to al|ter his purpose. Suerlie, as authors haue recorded, what through pestilence and vnwholesomnesse of the aire,Death in the French camp. a great manie of Frenchmen died at that time, and dailie more fell sicke. The number of them that died (as Matth. Paris, & Matth. Westminster affirme) amounted to twentie thousand persons, beside foure score of the Nobilitie that bare banners or penons. King Lewes himselfe also began to waxe diseased and crasie, Truce [...] betwixt the two kings. Polydor. The queen [...] England de|liuered of a daughter. so that he was constreined to renew the truce with king Henrie, & therewith departed home.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 King Henrie remained at Blaie vntill the feast of the Assumption of our ladie, and then went to Burdeaux to visit the queene, who in this meane while was brought to bed about midsummer of a yoong ladie, whom they named Beatrice after the queenes mother. Now whilest king Henrie was thus occupied in Poictou and Gascoine, William Marisch, William Ma|risch executi [...]. the sonne of Geffrie Marisch (by commandement sent from the king) was put to death at London, with sixteene of his complices on the euen of S.Iames the apostle. This William Marisch falling in to the kings displeasure, got him to the sea, and plaied the rouer, kéeping the Ile of Lundaie in the west countrie, till finallie he was taken and brought pri|soner vnto the towre, where he was charged with sundrie articles of treason, as that he should hire that counterfeit mad man which sought to haue murthe|red the king at Woodstoke, as before ye haue heard. Howbeit when he should die,Sée pag. 223. he vtterlie denied that euer he was priuie to anie such thing. He was first had from Westminster to the towne, & from thence drawne to the gibet, and there hanged till he was dead, and after being cut downe, had his bowels rip|ped out and burned, and when his head was cut off, the bodie was diuided into foure quarters, and sent vnto foure of the principall cities of the realme. His complices were also drawne through the citie of London vnto the same gibet, and there hanged.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 In the time of this warre also betwixt England and France,The seas tr [...]|ebled with men of warre. there was much hurt doone on the sea be|twixt them of the cinque ports and the Frenchmen of Normandie, and other: as the Caleis men and the Britons, which did make themselues as strong as they could against the Englishmen by sea. Where|vpon diuerse incounters chanced betwixt them, but more to the losse of the Englishmen, than of the Frenchmen: in somuch that they of the ports were constreined to require aid of the archb. of Yorke the lord gouernour of the realme. About which time, and after the king was withdrawen to Burdeaux, diuers noble men, as the earles of Norffolke and Winche|ster, with others, got licence to returne into Eng|land. Soone after whose arriuall, escuage was gathe|red through the realme towards the bearing of the kings charges. Moreouer,Escuage ga|thered 20 shil|lings of euerie knights fée. Matth. West. Death of noble men. in this yeare of the king there died sundrie noble men of naturall infirmities, as the earle of Warwike, Gilbert de Gaunt, Bald|win Wake, Philip de Kime, and Roger Berthram of the north, with diuerse other. Howbeit the king himselfe returned not home, but laie all the winter time at Burdeaux, meaning to attempt manie en|terprises, but he brought none to passe, sauing that in protracting the time, he spent much monie, and to lit|tle purpose.

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