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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 All these ordinances, articles and agréements, with manie mo (which here would be too long to rehearse) were accorded and ratified by the instruments and seales of the prince of Wales on the one part, and of the duke of Normandie regent of France on the o|ther part, as by their letters patents then sealed fur|ther appeared, bearing date, the one at Loures in Normandie the sixteenth daie of Maie in the yeare of Grace 1360, and the other at Paris the tenth day of the same moneth, and in the yeare aforesaid. O|uer & beside this, both the said princes tooke on them a solemne oth, to see all the same articles and coue|nants of agreement throughlie kept, mainteined and performed. This doone, king Edward imbarked him|selfe with his foure sonnes and the most part of his nobles at Hunfleu the twentith daie of Maie,The king of England re|turneth home The earle of Warwike. and so sailed into England, leauing hehind him the earle of Warwike to haue the gouernement of all the men of warre which he left behind him, either in Gaien or in any other place on that side the sea.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There died in this iournie diuerse noble men of this land, as the earles of March and Oxford, Tho. Walsi [...]. The French king goeth o|uer to Calis. the lord Iohn Graie then steward of England, and the lord Geffrie de Saie, with diuerse other. The eight of Iu|lie next insuing, the French king hauing licence to depart, landed at Calis, and was lodged in the castell there, abiding till the king of England came thither, which was not till the ninth day of October next af|ter. On the foure and twentith daie of October, both the kings being in two trauerses and one chappell at Calis, a masse was said before them,The kings receiue a so|lemne oth to sée the p [...]ace performed. and when they should haue kissed the pax, either of them in signe of greater fréendship kissed the other, & there they were solemnelie sworne to mainteine the articles of the same peace; and for more assurance thereof, manie lords of both parts were likewise sworne to main|teine the same articles to the vttermost of their powers. Whilest these kings laie thus at Calis, there was great banketting and chéere made betwixt them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Also the duke of Normandie came from Bul|longne to Calis, to visit his father,The duke [...] Normandie. and to sée the king of England, in which meane time two of king Ed|wards sonnes were at Bullongne. Finallie, when these two kings had finished all matters in so good order and forme that the same could not be amended nor corrected, and that the French king had deliuered his hostages to the king of England, that is to saie, six dukes, beside earles, lords, and other honorable personages, in all to the number of eight and thirtie: on the morrow after the taking of their oths,The [...] of the Fre [...] hostages. that is to saie on the fiue and twentith daie of October, be|ing sundaie, the French king was freelie deliuered, and the same daie before noone he departed from Ca|lis, and rode to Bullongne. The king of England brought him a mile foreward on his waie, and then tooke leaue of him in most louing maner. The prince EEBO page image 395 attended him to Bullongne, where both he and the duke of Normandie with other were eftsoons sworne to hold and mainteine the foresaid peace without all fraud or colourable deceit: and this doone, the prince returned to Calis. Thus was the French king set at libertie,The French king set at libertie. after he had beene prisoner here in Eng|land the space of foure yeares, and as much as from the nineteenth daie of September, vnto the fiue and twentith of October. When the king of England had finished his businesse at Calis, according to his mind, he returned into England, and came to Lon|don the ninth daie of Nouember.

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