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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After this, he passed by the land of the earle of Lis|le, till he came within a league of Tholouse, where the earle of Armignac, being the French kings lieu|tenant in those parts, and other great lords and no|bles were assembled. The prince with his armie tar|ried there two daies, and after passed ouer the riuer of Garonne, and after ouer an other riuer the rea|bouts, a league aboue Tholouse, lodging that night a league on the other side of Tholouse and so they passed thorough Tholouse, dailie taking townes & castels, wherein they found great riches, for the coun|trie was verie plentifull. Upon Alhallowes éeuen, they came to castell Naudarie, and from thence they tooke the waie to Carcasson,Carcasson. into the which a great number of men of armes and commons were with|drawne. But vpon the approch of the Englishmen, they slipt awaie, and got them to a strong castell that stood néere at hand. The third day after, the English|men burnt the towne, and passing forth, trauersed all the countrie of Carcassono [...]s, till they came to the towne of Narbonne.Narbonne. The people there were fled in|to the castell, in which the vicount of Narbonne was inclosed, with fiue hundred men of arms.Two bishops sent from the pope to the prince of Wales. The prince staied there two daies. The pope sent two bishops to|wards the prince, to treat with him of peace, but bi|cause the prince would not hearken to anie treatie without commission from his father, they could not get anie safe conduct to approch néerer.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The prince hauing aduertisments heere, that his enimies were assembled, and followed him, he tur|ned backe to meet them, but they had no will to abide him: for although the earle of Armignac, the consta|ble of France, the marshall Cleremont, and the prince of Orange, with diuerse other néere to Tho|louse, made some shew to impeach the prince his pas|sage, yet in the end they withdrew, not without some losse, for the lord Bartholomew de Burwasch alias Burghersch, sir Iohn Chandois, the lord Iames Audeley, and sir Thomas Felton, being sent foorth to view them, skirmished with two hundred of their men of armes, and tooke of them fiue and thirtie. Af|ter this, they had no mind to abide the English pow|er, but still shranke awaie, as the prince was readie to follow them, and so he perceiuing that the French|men would not giue him battell, he withdrew to|wards Burdeaux, after he had spent eight weekes in that his iournie, and so comming thither, he winte|tered there, whilest his capteins in the meane time tooke diuerse townes and castels abroad in the coun|trie. ¶And now to the end yee may haue more plaine EEBO page image 384 information of the princes dooings in those parties, I haue thought good to make you partakers of a let|ter or two, written by sir Iohn Winkefield knight, attendant on the prince there in Gascoigne.