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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Anon after, the French king was remooued from the Sauoie vnto the castell of Windsor with all his houshold,The French king remoued to Windsor. and then he went on hunting and haw|king there about at his pleasure, and the lord Philip his sonne with him, all the residue of the prisoners abode still at London, but were suffered to go vp and downe, and to come to the court when they would. In the same yeare the duke of Lancaster besieged the ci|tie of Rennes in Britaine,Rennes be|sieged. in the title of the coun|tesse of Richmond, & hir yoong sonne Iohn of Mont|fort, that claimed to be duke of Britaine. Those that were within the citie, as the vicount of Rohan, and Berthram de Claiquin (who as then was a lustie yoong bacheler) and others defended themselues manfullie for a time, but yet at length they were compelled to render the citie into their enimies hands.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Tho. Walsi. About the same time two Franciscane friers were burnt at London, for matters of religion. ¶ More|ouer queene Isabell, mother vnto king Edward the third, departed this life the seauen and twentith daie of August, and was buried the seauen and twentith daie of Nouember, in the church of the friers minors at London, not yet dedicated. ¶ Dauid king of Scotland, shortlie after the truce was concluded be|twixt England and France, was set at libertie, pai|eng for his ransome the summe of one hundred thousand marks (as Fourdon saith) but whether he meaneth Scotish or sterling monie, Fourdon. The king of Scots ran|somed. I cannot saie. He also was bound by couenant now vpon his deli|uerance, to cause the castels in Nidesdale to be rai|sed, which were knowne to be euill neighbors to the English borderers, Polydor. as Dunfrise, Dalswinton, Mor|ton, Dunsd [...]re, and nine other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 His wife quéene Ione made such earnest sute to hir brother king Edward for hir husbands deliue|rance, that king Edward was contented to release him vpon the paiment of so small a portion of mo|nie, and performance of the couenants, for the rai|sing of those castels; although Froissard saith, Froissard. that he was couenanted to paie for his deliuerance within the tearme of ten yeares, fiue hundred thousand no|bles, and for suertie of that paiment to send into England sufficient hostages, as the earles of Dow|glas, Murrey, Mar, Sutherland, and Fiffe, the ba|ron of Uescie, and sir William Camoise. Also he co|uenanted neuer to weare armour against king Ed|ward, within his realme of England, nor to consent that his subiects should so doo: and further should vp|on his returne home, doo the best he could to cause the Scots to agree that their countrie should hold of him in fée, and that he and his successours, kings of Scotland, should doo homage to the king of Eng|land, and his successors for the realme of Scot|land.

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