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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king in| [...]a [...]eth Frãce. The lord Bousicant.The French king being at the same time within the towne of saint Omers, sent the lord Bousicant vnto the king of England, that vnder colour of com|munication, he might view the kings power, who made such report thereof, vpon his returne backe to the French king, that he determined not to fight with the king of England, but rather to passe before him, and so to destroie vittels, that for want thereof, the king of England should be constreined to re|turne. And as he determined, so it came to passe, for the vittels were so cut off, that the Englishmen for thrée full daies togither, dranke nothing but water. When therefore king Edward had followed his eni|mies so farre as Heiden, Froissard. The king for want of vit|tels returneth where he brake the parke, and burnt the houses within and about the parke, al|though he entered not into the towne nor castell, at length, for default of vittels, he returned backe, and came againe to Calis on saint Martins day, being the tenth after his setting foorth from thence. Auesburie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 The consta|ble of France demandeth battell.The morrow after being thursdaie, and the twelfe of Nouember, the constable of France, and other Frenchmen, came to the end of the causie of Calis, with letters of credence, offering battell on tuesdaie next following vnto the king of England, in pre|sence of the duke of Lancaster, the earles of North|ampton, and the lord Walter de Mannie, who in the kings behalfe declared to the constable, that the king of England,The answer made to him. to eschew shedding of bloud, would fight with the French king bodie to bodie, so to trie their right: and if he liked not of that match, then if he would choose thrée or foure knights to him that were neerest to him in bloud, he should choose the like num|ber. But when this offer would not be accepted, the English lords offered battell the next day, being fri|daie, or else on saturdaie following, at the French|mens choice: but the constable of France and his companie, continuing in their first offer, refused both those daies. Then the English lords accepted the daie by them assigned, with condition, that if they brought not king Edward to giue battell that day, they would yeeld themselues prisoners, so that the Frenchmen would likewise vndertake for their king. The consta|ble hauing no answer readie, staied a while, and after flatlie refused to make any such couenant. Finallie, when the English lords perceiued their aduersaries, not to meane battell, as their words at the first pre|tended, they brake off, and both parties returned home. The king of England staied till the tuesdaie, and paid the strangers their wages, and so came backe into England.Berwike ta|ken by Scots On the sixt of Nouember, whi|lest the king was thus abroad in Picardie, the Scots verie earlie in the morning of that daie, came priui|lie to Berwike, entred by stealth into the towne, and sle [...]ing three or foure Englishmen, tooke it, with all the goods and persons within it, those excepted, which got to the castell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In a parlement summoned this yeare, the mon|daie after the feast of saint Edmund the king,A parlement. the lords and commons granted to king Edward fiftie shillings of euerie sacke of wooll, that should be cari|ed ouer the sea, for the space of six yeares next insu|ing. By this grant it was thought, that the king might dispend a thousand markes sterling a day, such vent of wools had the English merchants in that sea|son. ¶The parlement being ended the king about S. Andrews tide set forward towards Scotland, and held his Christmasse at Newcastell. About which time by letters sent from the prince, the king was aduertised of his proceedings after his arriuall in Gascoigne, where being ioifullie receiued of the no|bles, and other the people of that countrie (as before yée haue heard) he declared to them the cause of his thither comming, and tooke aduise with them how to procéed in his businesse; and so about the tenth of Oc|tober, he set forward to passe against his enimies, first entring into a countrie called Iuliake, which to|gither with the fortresses yeelded to him, without a|nie great resistance.The procée|dings of the prince of Wales in A|quitaine. Then he rode through the coun|tie Armignac, wasting and spoiling the countrie, and so passed through the lands of the vicounts de la Ri|uiere, and after entered into the countie de l'Estrac, and passing through the same, came to the countie of Commiges, finding the towne of S. Matain void, being a good towne & one of the best in that countrie.

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