Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There were taken, besides the lord Charles de Blois naming himselfe duke of Britaine, diuerse o|ther lords and men of name, as monsieur Guie de la Uaall sonne and heire to the lord la Uaall, which died in the battell, the lord of Rocheford, the lord de Beaumanour, the lord of Loiacke, with other lords, knights, and esquiers, in great numbers. There were slaine the said lord de la Uaall, the Uicount of Ro|han, the lord of Chasteau Brian, the lord de Maile|streit, the lord de Quintin, the lord de Rouge, the lord of Dereuall and his sonne, sir Rafe de Montford, and manie other worthie men of armes, knights and esquiers, to the number of betwixt six and seuen hun|dred, as by a letter written by the said sir Thomas Dagworth, and registred in the historie of Robert de Auesburie dooth appeare.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this meane while, king Philip hauing dailie word how the power of his enimie king Edward did increase by aid of the Easterlings and other na|tions, which were to him alied, and that his men within Calis were brought to such an extreme point, Fabian. that without spéedie rescue they could not long keepe the towne, but must of force render it ouer into the hands of his said enimie, to the great preiudice of all the realme of France, after great deliberation ta|ken vpon this so weightie a matter,The French king assem|bleth an armie Froissard. he commanded euerie man to meet him in their best arraie for the warre, at the feast of Pentecost in the citie of Ami|ens, or in those marches. At the daie and place thus appointed, there came to him Odes duke of Bur|goigne, and the duke of Normandie eldest sonne to the king, the duke of Orleance his yoongest sonne, the duke of Burbon, the earle of Fois, the lord Lois de Sauoie, the lord Iohn of Hemalt, the earle of Armi|nacke, the earle of Forrest, and the earle Ualentino|is, with manie others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 These noble men being thus assembled, they tooke councell which waie they might passe to giue battell to the Englishmen: it was thought the best waie had beene through Flanders, but the Flemings in fauor of the king of England denied,The Flem|ings besiege Aire. not onelie to open their passages to the Frenchmen, but also had leuied an armie of an hundred thousand men of one and o|ther, and laid siege to Aire, and burnt the countrie all about. Ia. Meir. Wherepon there were manie sharpe bicke|rings and sore incoun [...]ers betwixt the Flemings and such Frenchmen as king Philip sent foorth a|gainst them both, now, whilest the French armie laie about A [...]ens, and also before, during all the time that the siege lay at Calis. For all the French towns vpon the frontiers were stuffed with strong garri|sons of souldiers, as Lisle, saint Omers, Arras, Bul|longne, Aire and [...], and those men of war were euer readie vpon occasion to attempt sundrie exploits. After this, when the armie of the Flemings was broken-vp,The French K. cõmeth to|wards Calis. and returned home, or rather diui|ded into parts, and lodged along on the frontiers, the French king with two thousand men one and other came forward, taking his way through the countrie called la Belme, and so by the countrie of Franke|berge, came streight to the hill of Sangate, betwixt Calis and Wisant.