Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the feast of S. Matthew in Februarie, the king called a parlement of his nobles (not admitting thereto any of the cleargie) at Salisburie,A parlement at Salisburie and there required certeine of his Nobles to passe ouer into Gascoine, but euerie of them séemed to excuse him|selfe, whereat the king being mooued, threatened that they should either go, or he would giue their lands to other that would go, with which words manie of them were gréeuouslie offended, in so much that the earles of Hereford and Marshall, Humfrie Bohun, and Roger Bigod, declared that they would be rea|die to go with the king if he went himselfe, or else not. And when the earle Marshall was eftsoones re|quired to go, he answered, I will willinglie go with the king, and march before him in the fore ward, as by right of inheritance I am bound.

Yea (saith the king) and you shall go with other though I go not. I am not so bound (saith the earle) neither doo I pur|pose to take the iournie in hand with you.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king then in a great chafe burst out & sware, By God sir earle, either thou shalt go or hang. And I sweare (saith the earle) the same oth, that I will nei|ther go nor hang: and so he departed from the king without leaue taking.The [...] demeanor [...] the two [...]. Immediatlie herevpon those two earles assembled manie noble men, and o|ther of their fréends togither to the number of thirtie banerets and aboue, so that in all they were found to be fifteene hundred men of armes appointed and rea|die for battell, and herewith they withdrew into their countries, and kept such stir there, that they would not permit the kings officers to take neither wools, leather, nor any thing against the owners will, but forbad them on paine of loosing their heads to come within their roomes, and withall prepared themselues to resist if need were.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this meane time the warre was prosecuted in Gascoine.They had with them 600 men of armes, and 10000 [...] as Abing [...] saith. ¶ The thursdaie before the Purification of our ladie, Henrie earle of Lincolne, and the lord Iohn saint Iohn departing from Baion towards Bellegard, a place besieged as then by the earle of Arthois, to succour them within the same with vit|tels (whereof they stood in néed) as they approched to a wood distant from the fortresse thrée miles, they di|uided themselues into two seuerall battels, the lord Iohn saint Iohn leading the first, and the earle of Lincolne the second. The lord saint Iohn therefore hauing passed the wood with his battell,Battell be|twixt the [...] of Lincoln and the earle of Arthois, who had [...] him 1500 [...] of armes, [...] Abingtõ [...]. and entring into the plaine fields, was incountred by the earle of Arthois, who tarried there for him with a great power, where immediatlie at the first ioining of the battels, the earle of Lincolne retired backe: so that the lord Iohn saint Iohn and his companie ouerset with preasse of enimies were vanquished: and the said lord saint Iohn with sir William de Mortimer, sir William Burmengham and other to the number of eight knights, and diuerse esquires were taken, the which were sent to Paris as prisoners.