Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This determinate resolution of king Edward be|ing intimated to the commons of the towne, assem|bled in the market place by the sound of the common bell before the capteine, caused manie a wéeping eie amongst them: but in the end, when it was percei|ued that no other grace would be obteined, six of the most wealthie burgesses of all the towne agreed to hazard their liues for the safegard of the residue, and so according to the prescript order deuised by the K. they went foorth of the gates, and were presented by the lord Walter de Mannie to the king,Six bur|gesses of Ca|lis presented to the king. before whom they knéeled downe, offered to him the keies of the towne, and besought him to haue mercie vpon them. But the king regarding them with a fell counte|nance, commanded streight that their heads should be striken off. And although manie of the noble men did make great intreatance for them, yet would no grace be shewed,The queene obteined their pardon. vntill the quéene being great with child, came and knéeled downe before the king hir husband, and with lamentable cheere & wéeping eies intreated so much for them, that finallie the kings anger was aswaged & his rigor turned to mercie (for

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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Calis yéelded to the king of England.Thus was the strong towne of Calis yéelded vp into the hands of king Edward, the third of August, in the yeare 1347. The capteine the lord Iohn de Ui|enne, and all the other capteins and men of name were staied as prisoners, and the common soldiers and other meane people of the towne were licenced to depart and void their houses, leauing all their ar|mor and riches behind them. The king would not haue any of the old inhabitants to remaine in the towne, saue onlie a priest, and two other ancient per|sonages, such as best knew the customes, lawes and ordinances of the towne. He appointed to send ouer thither amongst other Englishmen, there to inhabit, 36 burgesses of London,Calis made a colonie of Englishmen. and those of the wealthiest sort, for he meant to people the towne onelie with Englishmen, for the better and more sure defense thereof. The king and quéene were lodged in the ca|stell,The quéene brought to bed in the ca|stell of Calis. Polydor. and continued there, till the queene was deliue|red of a daughter named Margaret.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The cardinals, of whome ye heard before, being come as legats from pope Clement to mooue com|munication of peace, did so much in the matter, that a truce was granted betwixt the realme of England & France, for the terme of twelue moneths, or two yeares (as Froissard saith.) But the English chroni|cle and Iacobus Meir seeme to agree, Caxton. Ia. Meir. A truce. that this truce was taken but for nine moneths, though afterwards the same was proroged. To the which truce all par|ties agreed,Women hard to agrée. Britaine excepted, for the two women there would not be quieted, but still pursued the war the one against the other. After that this truce was accorded, the king with the quéene his wife returned into England, and left as capteine within Calis one sir Amerie of Pauie an Italian knight,Sir Amerie de Pauie. or (as o|ther bookes haue) he was but capteine of the castell, or of some one of the towers of that towne, which sée|meth more like to be true, than that the king should commit the whole charge of the towne vnto his go|uernement, being a stranger borne, and therefore Ia|cobus Meir is the more to be credited, that writeth how sir Amerie of Pauie was left but in charge with the castell onelie, and that the towne was com|mitted to the kéeping of the lord Iohn Beauchampe, and Lewes his brother.