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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The earle of Lincolne with a great manie of o|ther wandred a great part of the night and knew not whither to go.The earle of Lincolne es|caped. At length about thrée of the clocke in the morning he came to Perforate, where he had lodged with his armie the night before, & there found a great number of his people right glad of his com|ming and happie escape out of danger.He commeth home. From thence he returned vnto Baion with the earle of Richmond sir Iohn de Britaine and all his companie that were left. And such was the hap of this iournie. In Lent following, those that were dispersed here and there a|broad, resorted to the earle of Lincolne, soiourning at Baion, and in the summer season made a iournie to|wards Tholouse,He inuadeth the countrie about Tho|louse. spoiling and wasting the countries of Tholouse and other there abouts, and remoued also the siege which those of Tholouse had laid vnto a fortresse called S. Kiternes, in chasing them from the same siege: and towards Michaelmasse they retur|ned to Baion, and there laie alle the winter till after Christmasse, and then by reason of the truce conclu|ded, as after appeareth, betwixt the two kings of En|gland & France, they returned home into England.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 In the same yeare the king raised the custome of wooll to an higher rate than had beene paid at any time before:The custome of wool raised. for he tooke now fortie shillings of a sacke or sarpler, where before there was paid but half a marke. Abington. Euer [...]den. Prouision for the kings iournie into France. Moreouer he commanded, that against his iournie which he meant to make ouer into France, there should be two thousand quarters of wheat, and as much of oates taken by the shiriffe in euerie coun|tie within the realme to be conueied to the sea side, except where they had no store of corne, and there should béeues and bakons be taken to a certeine number. In the meane time the earle of Flanders was sore vexed by war which the French king made against him, Ia. Meir. The French king inuadeth Flanders. being entred into Flanders with an ar|mie of thrée score thousand men, as some authors haue recorded.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Lisle besie|ged.About the feast of the natiuitie of S. Iohn Bap|tist, he laid siege to Lisle, and shortlie after came the earle of Arthois, being returned out of Gascoine with his power vnto that siege, and was sent foorth to kéepe the Flemings and others occupied,The earle of Arthois van|quisheth the Flemings in battell. which laie at Furneis, and in other places thereabouts in low Flanders, with whome he fought and got the victorie. King Edward therefore, to succour his fréends pre|pared to go ouer into Flanders, and therevpon sum|moned all those that owght him any seruice, N. Triuet. & such also as held lands to the value of twentie pounds and aboue, to be readie with horsse and harnesse at Lon|don about Lammas to passe ouer with him in that iournie.

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