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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 When all things were ordred in Caen as the king could desire, he marched from thence in the same or|der as he had kept before, burning and exiling the countrie. He passed by Eureux & came to Louiers,Louiers. which the Englishmen soone entred and sacked with|out mercie. Then went they foorth and left Roan, and came to Gisors, the towne they burnt,Gisors. but the castell they could not get: they burnt also Uernon,Uernon. and at Poissie they repared the bridge which was broken, and so there they passed ouer the riuer of Saine. The power of the Englishmen increased dailie, Gio. Villani by such numbers as came ouer foorth of England in hope to win by pillage. Also manie gentlemen of Norman|die, and other of the French nation, which loued not nor owght any good will vnto the French king, came to the king of England, offering to serue him, so that there were in his armie foure thousand horsse|men and fiftie thousand footmen with the Normans, and of this number there were thirtie thousand Eng|lish arthers, as Giouan Villani writeth. The Eng|lish marshals ran abroad iust to Paris,S. Germans in Laie. S. Clowd. and burnt S. Germans in Laie: also Mountioy, and S. Clowd, and petie Bullongne by Paris, & the queenes Burge. In the meane time had the French king assembled a mightie armie vpon purpose to fight with the Eng|lishmen. ¶ The lord Godfrey of Harecourt, as he rode foorth with fiue hundred men of armes, and 13 hundred archers, by aduenture incountered with a great number of the burgesses of Amiens on horsse|backe, who were riding by the kings commande|ment to Paris. They were quickelie assailed, and though they defended themselues manfullie for a while, yet at length they were ouercome, and eleuen hundred of them slaine in the field, beside those that were taken. The Englishmen had all their cariage and armour. Thus passed foorth the king of England, and came into Beauuoisin, and lodged neere vnto the citie of Beauuois one night in an abbeie called Mes|sene, and for that after he was dislodged,Beauuois. there were that set fire in the same abbeie, without any com|mandement giuen by him; he caused twentie of them to be hanged that were the first procurers of that fire.Burners executed.