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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 This siege began euen in the beginning of the twelfth yeare of king Edwards reigne, and continu|ed for the space of nineteene wéeks, with small gaine and lesse honour to the Englishmen, in so much that the same brake vp vnder a colour of a truce, when there was no hope of winning the place, and that the noble men that laie there at siege, hasted to make an end, that they might attend the king in his iournie o|uer into Brabant.A parlement. The morrow after Candlemasse day the parlement began, in which there was a grant made to the king by the laitie of the one halfe of their woolles through the whole realme for the next sum|mer, Croxden. A subsidie. which he receiued, and likewise he leuied of the cleargie the whole, causing them to paie nine marks of euerie sacke of the best wooll. But after the rate of the one halfe he tooke in whose hands so euer it was found, aswell merchants as others. After this, he tooke a fiftéenth of all the communaltie of his realme in wooll, the price of euerie stone conteining foure|téene pounds rated at two shillings. The one and twentith of March the two cardinals tooke the sea at Douer,The cardi|nals returne. and in their companie went ouer the archbi|shop of Canturburie, and the bishop of Durham to treat of a peace, if by any good means the two kings might be made fréends. But as it appeared, their tra|uell was in vaine, for although they abode togither for a time on the frontiers, dooing their best indeuor, yet their trauell nothing auailed, as by that which fol|loweth is most manifest.