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Compare 1577 edition: 1 At his comming to the court of Spaine, he was verie honorablie receiued of the king, and in the end, vpon conference had of his message, obteined his suit, so that king Alfonse was content to bestow vp|on him his daughter in marriage, with the countie of Pontieu in France,He marrieth the ladie Ele|nor daughter to K. Alfonse which she held in right of hir mother queene Ione, the second wife of Ferdinando the king of Castile, father vnto this king Alfonse, which Ione was the onelie daughter and heire of Si|mon earle of Pontieu, and had issue by hir husband the said Ferdinando two sonnes, Ferdinando and Lewes, with one daughter; to wit, the foresaid Ele|nor, the which by reason hir brethren died yoong, was heire to hir mother. The lord Edward hauing dis|patched his businesse according to his desire, returned with a ioifull hart to his father, and declared to him what he had doone. His father most glad thereof, Ran. Higd. Polydor. for EEBO page image 259 an a [...]men [...]anon of honour, [...] created him prince of W [...]les and earle of [...]ester, and appointed him to be his deputie and generall lieutenant both in Guien and in Ireland, and gaue to him the townes of Bri|s [...]ow Stamford and Grantham. Hereof came it, that [...]uer after the kings eldest sonne was made imme|diat [...]ie vpon his birth prince of Wales and earle of [...]ester. [...] He creat [...]d also his other sonne named Ed|mund earle of Lancaster.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About this season were certeine ships driuen by force of wind and weather into certeine hauens on the north coasts of England towards Barwike, w [...]ich ships were of a verie strange forme and fashi|on, but mightie and strong. The men that were a|boord the same ships were of some farre countrie, for their language was vnknowne, and not vnderstand|able to any man that could be brought to talke with them. The fraught and balast of the ships was ar|mour and weapon, as habergeons, helmets, speares, bowes, arrowes, crosbowes and darts, with great store of vittels. There laie also without the hauens on the coast diuerse other ships of like forme, mold and fashion. Those that were driuen into the hauens were staied for a time by the bailiffes of the ports. But fi|nal [...]ie, when it could not be knowne what they were, nor from whence they came, they were licenced to de|part without losse or harme in bodie or goods.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Gaston de Bi+ [...]n [...] [...] to take [...] of B [...]nAbout Candlemasse, Gaston de Bierne, assem|bling togither a multitude of the kings enimies, tho|rough the intelligence of some of the citizens of Ba [...]on that fauoured not the king, wrought so, that certeine of his number entred that citie, meaning to haue bereft the king of the dominion thereof. But other of the citizins (namelie those of the meaner sort which fauoured the king) made such resistance, that the e [...]imies which were entred, were apprehended, and diuerse of them suffered punishment, as they had well deserued. After this, there chanced a mutinie in the English armie,A [...] in the English a [...]e. bicause the kings brethren and the bishop of Hereford tooke vpon them to punish certeine Welshmen, for that without commission they had béene abrod to spoile within the French con|fines. Therfore in asmuch as the punishment séemed to exceed the degrée and qualitie of the offense; and a|gaine, for that the earle of Hereford being constable of the host by inheritance ought to haue had the order of all corrections in cases of such offenses, the Eng|lishmen were in mind to haue slaine all the Poi|c [...]ouins in despite of the kings brethren, if the king had not in humble wise sought to haue appeased their furie.

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