Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The Scots in reuenge hereof made diuerse rodes into England, withdrawing still with their prey and booties, before the English power could assemble to giue them battell. About Alhallontide, the Scots be|sieged the castell of Edenburgh,The castell of Edenburgh besieged. but the bishop of Carleill, the lord Randoll Dacres of Gillesland, with the power of the counties of Cumberland and of Westmerland, and the king of Scots Edward Ba|lioll, with the lord Anthonie Lucie, and such compa|nie as they brought from Berwike, meeting at Roc|kesburgh, marched foorth vnto Edenburgh,The siege is raised. and cha|sing the Scots from the siege, tooke order for the safe keeping of the castell from thencefoorth, and returned into England. In this meane time things happened so well to the purpose of king Edward,The K. prac|tiseth with ye Flemings. that by prac|tise he alienated the hearts of the Flemings from the obedience of their earle, being altogither an ear|nest fréend to the French king. He therefore vnder|standing the minds of his people, sought to winne them by some gentle treatie, and so did euen at the first, concluding an agréement with them of Gaunt, which were fullie at a point to haue entred into league with the king of England, as with him whose fréendship by reason of the traffike of merchandize, (and namelie of the English wools) they knew to be more necessarie for their countrie than the French kings.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Although by the helpe of the bishop of Tournie the earle of Flanders caused them to staie from conclu|ding or ioining in anie such bonds of amitie with the king of England for that time,The bishop of Tournie. yet he doubted the ar|riuall of some power out of England, and therevp|on appointed his bastard brother Guie of Rij [...]ken|burgh, and certeine other noble men and capteins, Ia. M [...]ir. with a crue of men of warre to lie in the Ile of EEBO page image 354 Cadsant,The Ile of Cadsant. to defend the passage there, and to see that no English ships should come or go that waie by the seas: whereof the king of England being aduerti|sed, sent thither the earle of Derbie, the lord Lewes Beauchampe,An armie sent by sea into Flanders. the lord Reginald Cobham, also the lord William sonne to the earle of Warwike, the lord Walter de Mannie an Hanneuier, and other lords, knights, and capteins, with a power of fiue hundred men of armes,Foure thou|sand saith Ia. Meir. and two thousand archers, the which comming to the foresaid Ile of Cadsant, found the Flemings, about fiue thousand in num|ber, readie arranged on the towne dikes and sands, in purpose to defend the entrie, which they did a cer|teine space right valiantlie: Froissard. but in the end they were discomfited, and three thousand of them slaine in the stréets, hauen, and houses. Sir Guie the bastard of Flanders was taken with diuerse other knights and gentlemen, the towne was burnt, and the goods with the prisoners were carried into England. This chanced on a sundaie the daie before the feast of saint Martine in Nouember. Where the lord Walter de Mannie might haue had 11 thousand pounds ster|ling for the ransome of the said sir Guie, and other prisoners, the king bought them of him in the foure|téenth yeare of his reigne for eight thousand pounds sterling, as by records in the tower it appeareth.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About the feast of saint Martine in winter, there came vnto London two cardinals,Two cardi|nals come in|to England. sent by the pope to treat for a peace betwixt the kings of England, and France. ¶The archbishop of Canturburie, with the bishops of Winchester, Elie, Chichester, Couen|trie, & the cõmoners of the citie of London met them on Shooters hill.Additions to Meri. The duke of Cornewall with the earle of Surrie, and manie other of the nobilitie re|ceiued them a mile without the citie. The king him|selfe receiued them at the lesser hall doore of his pa|lace at Westminster, and brought them into the painted chamber, where they declared their message: wherevpon the king caused a parlement to be sum|moned at London, to begin the morrow after Can|dlemasse day. The king held his Christmasse at Gild|ford, and within the octaues of the same feast he tooke his iournie towards Scotland, or rather (as other haue) he sent thither the earles of Salisburie, Ri. Southwell The castell of Dunbar be|sieged. Anno Reg. 12. Gloce|ster, Derbie, and Anegos, with three barons, the lords Percie, Neuill, and Stafford, the which with twentie thousand men besieged the castell of Dunbar.