Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The king from Sluice first went to Bruges, la. Mei [...]. and after to Gaunt, finding the countrie in euill state, by reason that the good towns were not all of one mind: for diuers of them misliked with the dooings of the earle,Lisle [...] to the [...] king. in that he had alied himselfe with the French kings aduersaries. About the beginning of Septem|ber was Li [...]le yeelded vnto the French king, and af|ter that they of Doway, Curtray, and Bruges, did likewise submit themselues to the same king.Charle [...] [...] Ualois [...] to [...] Then was Charles earle of Ualois sent to Bruges to for|tifie that towne, and to take the English nauie that laie at anchor in the hauen of Dam: but the En|glishmen hauing warning thereof, got foorth with their vessels into the sea, and so the earle of Ualois be|ing disappointed of that preie, set in hand to fortifie Bruges and Dam. But the earle of Austrich, & Ro|bert de Neuers son to earle Guy, being sent with a power of Englishmen, Flemings, and other soul|diors vnto Dam, fought with the Frenchmen, slue foure hundreth of them, besides diuers that were ta|ken, and recouered the towne. They might also haue recouered Bruges, as was thought, if the English|men and Flemings had not fallen at strife, & fought togither about diuiding of the preie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Finallie, after this, the French king came to Bru|ges,The [...] Adul [...] [...] and when the king of England and the earle of Flanders had long looked and all in vaine for the em|peror Adulfe, who had promised to come to their aid with a great armie; for the charges and wages wher|of he had receiued great summes of monie both of the king of England, and also of the earle of Flan|ders: they concluded in the end (when they perceiued he would not come) to make some agreement with the French king: and so first was a truce taken, from the middest of October, vnto the calends of Decem|ber, and after by mediation of Charles (surnamed Claudius) king of Sicill, the same truce was prolon|ged EEBO page image 305 as hereafter ye shall heare.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this meane while, to wit, about the end of Au|gust, the earle of Surrey, when he saw that the Sco|tishmen would not performe promise touching the deliuerie of the pledges, and that William Waleis still mooued the people to rebellion, he assembled his armie, & with the same entring Scotland, came vn|to Striueling. Then the lord steward of Scotland, and also the earle of Lenox came vnto him, requi|ring him to staie till they might haue leasure to see if they could bring the people of Scotland vnto the kings peace. But when they could not doo it, they re|turned on the tenth day of September, promising to bring to the aid of the earle of Surrey on the mor|row after fortie horssemen, vpon the which day two friers of the order of preachers were sent vnto Wil|liam Waleis, and to the other Scotishmen lieng be|yond the hill aboue the monasterie of Scambeskin, to mooue them to the kings peace. But their answer was, that they were not come to haue peace, but to trie the matter by battell.