Compare 1577 edition: 1 The earles daughter being sent for, and brought vnto Paris, the earle and his wife were released, and suffered to returne into Flanders,The earle of Flanders released re|turneth home. and shortlie after, the earle made earnest suit to haue his daughter re|stored vnto him againe, insomuch that he procured pope Boniface to be a meane for him to the French king; but all would not serue, no, though as some say the pope accurssed the French king for reteining hir, answer being made,The French kings answer to the pope. that matters perteining to worldlie gouernement, belonged not to the pope to discusse. Finallie, earle Guie, perceiuing he could not preuaile in that suit, to haue his daughter a|gaine, vpon high displeasure concluded to ioine in league with king Edward & his confederats.A new league betwixt the K. of England, the emperour and others against the French king. Here|vpon, at an assemblie or councell kept at Gerard|mount, there was a solemne league made and a|gréed betwixt Adolph the emperour of Almaine, Ed|ward king of England, Guie earle of Flanders, Iohn Duke of Brabant, Henrie earle of Bar, both sonnes in law to king Edward, and Albert duke of Austrich, against Philip king of France, and Iohn earle of Henault his partaker.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Matth. West. The merchants of Flanders procured the earle to conclude this league with king Edward, as some write, the rather in respect of the great commodities which rose to their countrie, by reason of the inter|course of merchandize vsed betwixt England and Flanders, and for that through aid of the English|men, they might the better withstand the malice, both of the French and of all other their enimies. This league being proclaimed in England, there were sent ouer into Flanders, the treasurer of the exche|ker, and diuerse other noble men, to fetch hostages from thence, and to giue to the earle fifteene thousand pounds of siluer, toward the fortifieng of his castels and holds. King Philip being hereof aduertised, by counsell of the peeres of his realme, sent two honora|ble personages, as the capteine of Mounstrell, and the capteine of Belquerke, which should attach the earle of Flanders by his bodie, and summon him to yéeld himselfe prisoner at Paris, within the space of fifteene daies next insuing.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The earle of Flanders [...] the [...]rench king.This attachment made, and summons giuen, the earle of Flanders sent his full defiance vnto the French king by the abbats of Gemblois, and Sene|fles, vnto whome he gaue sufficient letters procura|torie, to authorise them thereto, dated at Male in the yeare of Grace 1296, after the accounts of the chro|nicles of Flanders, which begin their yere at Easter: and so this chanced in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Edwards reigne, the wednesdaie next after the feast of the Epiphanie.The earle of Flanders accurssed. Herevpon was the earle ac|curssed, & Flanders interdicted by the archbishop of Reims, and the bishop of Senlis comming vnto Terwane for that purpose, about the fifteenth day of Iune, in the yeare 1297. But the lord Robert the earles sonne appealed from that interdiction to the pope,His sonne appealeth from the in|terdiction. and so the Flemmings tooke themselues frée & out of danger of the same. Earle Guie also obteined of king Edward, that it might be lawfull for them of Bruges, to buy wools, through England, Scotland and Ireland, as freelie as the Italians might by their priuilege and grant.