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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 When night was come vpon them, there were thirtie French ships,Additions to Triuet & Merimuth. that yet had not entred the bat|tell, the which sought by couert of the night to haue stolne awaie, and one of them being a mightie great vessell, called the Iames of Déepe,The Iames of Déepe. would haue taken awaie with hir a ship of Sandwich that belonged to the prior of Canturburie: but by the helpe of the earle of Huntington, after they had fought all the night till the next morning, the Englishmen at length pre|uailed, and taking that great huge ship of Déepe, found in hir aboue foure hundred dead bodies. To conclude, verie few of the French ships escaped, ex|cept some of their smaller vessels, and certeine gal|lies with their admerall Barbenoir,Barbenoir. Gaguin. Auesburie. Tho. Walsi. Adam Meri|muth. who in the begin|ning of the battell got foorth of the hauen, aduising the other capteins to doo the like, thereby to auoid the danger which they wilfullie imbraced. There died in this battell fought (as some write) on midsummer daie, in the yeare aforesaid, of Frenchmen to the number of 30000, of Englishmen about 4000, Froissard. Ia. Meir. R. Southw. The number slaine. Rich. South. or (as other haue that liued in those daies) not past 400, a|mongst whom there were foure knights of great no|bilitie, as sir Thomas Monhermere, sir Thomas La|timer, sir Iohn Boteler, and sir Thomas Poinings.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 It is said also, that the king himselfe was hurt in the thigh. The two English ships that had béene ta|ken the yéere before, the Edward and the Christopher, were recouered at this time, amongst other of the French ships that were taken there. ¶ Sir Peter Bahuchet was hanged vpon a crosse pole fastened to a mast of one of the ships. Through the wilfulnesse of this man, the Frenchmen receiued this losse (as the French chronicles report) bicause he kept the nauie so long within the hauen, till they were so inclosed by the Englishmen, that a great number of the French|men could neuer come to strike stroke, nor to vse the shot of their artillerie, but to the hurt of their fellows. Howsoeuer it was, the Englishmen got a famous victorie, to the great comfort of themselues, and dis|comfort of their aduersaries. ¶ The king of Eng|land, after he had thus vanquished his enimies, re|mained on the sea by the space of three daies, and then comming on land, went to Gant, where he was re|ceiued of the queene with great ioy and gladnesse.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this meane while had the duke of Normandie besieged the castell of Thuine Leuesques, Rich. South. The king [...] to [...] Froissard. néere to Cambrie, which was taken by sir Walter of Man|nie, a lord of Heinault, at the first beginning of the warres, and euer since till that time kept to the king of England his vse. The earle of Heinault, who had beene of late both in England with king Edward, and also in Almaine with the emperour, to purchase their assistance for the defense of his countrie a|gainst the inuasions of the Frenchmen, was now returned home, and meaning to rescue such as were besieged in Thuine, sent for succours into Flanders, and into Almaine, and in the meane time leuieng such power as he could make with his owne coun|trie, came therewith to Ualenciennes, whither foorth|with resorted vnto him the earle of Namure with two hundred speares, the duke of Brabant with six hundred, the duke of Gelderland, the earle of Ber|gen, the lord of Ualkenburgh, and diuerse other, the which togither with the earle of Heinault went and lodged alongst by the riuer of Lestault ouer against the French host,The riuer [...] Lestault, [...] the [...]. which kept siege (as ye haue heard) EEBO page image 359 vnder the conduct of the duke of Normandie be|fore Thuine Leuesques, that is situate vpon the same riuer.

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