Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the other side, the lord Godfrie of Harecourt, with the battell on the right hand of the king, road foorth six or seuen leagues from the kings battell, in burning and exiling the countrie. The king had with him (beside those that were with the marshals) 3000 men of armes, six thousand archers, and ten thousand men on foot. They left the citie of Con|stance,Saint Lo. and came to a great towne called saint Lo, a rich towne of draperie, hauing manie wealthie bur|gesses within it: it was soone taken and robbed by the Englishmen vpon their first approch. From thence the king marched streight to Caen, wherein were capteins Rafe earle of Ewe and Guines con|stable of France, & the earle of Tankeruile. These noble men meant to haue kept their defenses on the walles, gate, bridge, and riuer, and to haue left the suburbes void, bicause they were not closed, but one|lie with the riuer: but they of the towne said they would issue forth, for they were strong inough to fight with the king of England.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the constable saw their good willes, he was contented to follow their desire, and so foorth they went in good order, and made good face to put their liues in hazard: but when they saw the Englishmen approch in good order, diuided into thrée battels, & the archers readie to shoot, which they of Caen had not seene before, they were sore afraid, and fled awaie to|ward the towne without any order or arraie, for all that the constable could doo to staie them. The Eng|lishmen followed,There were slaine in all without and within the towne 5000 men, as Gio. Villani wri|teth. and in the chase slue manie, and en|tered the towne with their enimies. The constable, and the earle of Tankeruile tooke a tower at the bridge foot, thinking there to saue themselues, but perceiuing the place to be of no force, nor able long to hold out, they submitted themselues vnto sir Tho|mas Holland. ¶ But here whatsoeuer Froissard dooth report of the taking of this tower, and of the yéelding of these two noble men, it is to be proued that the said earle of Tankeruile was taken by one surnamed Legh,Peter Legh. ancestor to sir Peter Legh now liuing, whe|ther in the fight or within the tower, I haue not to saie: but for the taking of the said earle, and for his o|ther manlike prowes shewed here and elsewhere in this iournie, king Edward in recompense of his a|gréeable seruice, gaue to him a lordship in the countie of Chester called Hanley, which the said sir Peter Legh now liuing dooth inioy and possesse, as successor and heire to his ancestor the foresaid Legh, to whom it was so first giuen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But to returne now to the matter where we left. The Frenchmen being entred into their houses, cast downe vpon the Englishmen below in the stréets, stones,Caen taken. timber, hot water, and barres of iron, so that they hurt and slue more than fiue hundred persons. The king was so mooued therewith, that if the lord Godfrie of Harecourt had not asswaged his mood, the towne had béene burnt, and the people put to the edge of the sword: but by the treatie of the said lord Godfrie, proclamation w [...]s made, that no man should put fire into any house, nor [...]lea any person, nor force any woman, and then did the townesmen and souldiers submit themselues, and receiued the Englishmen into their houses.40000 clot [...]s as Gio. [...] writeth, [...] got by the Englishmen in one place and other [...] this iourn [...] There was great [...]tore of riches gotten in this towne, and the most part thereof sent into England, with the fléet which the king sent home with the prisoners, vnder the guiding of the earle of Huntington, accompanied with two hundred men of armes, and foure hundred archers.