Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After that the battell was ended, and that such as had followed the chase were returned, the prince cau|sed the fields to be searched, to vnderstand what num|ber had béene slaine in the battell: they that were ap|pointed to take the view, vpon their returne repor|ted,The number slaine at this battell at Na|uarret. that there was dead of men of armes fiue hun|dred and thréescore, and of commons about seauen thousand, and fiue hundred of the English part: there were slaine of men of name, but foure knights, two Gascoignes, one Almaine, and the fourth an Eng|lishman, and of other meane souldiers, not past fortie (as Froissard saith.) But others affirme, that there were slaine of the princes part about sixtéene hun|dred; which should séeme to be more like a truth, Fabian. if the battell was fought so sore and fiercelie, as Froissard himselfe dooth make report. Howbeit, Caxton. there be that write, how the duke of Lancaster wan the field by great fortune and valiancie, yet the prince came neere to his enimies. But howsoeuer it was, the Englishmen obteined the victorie in this battell, fought on a saturdaie being the third of Aprill, in the yeare 1367. There were taken prisoners, Froissard. to the number of two thousand, and amongst them the erle of Dene, sir Berthram de Cleaquin, the marshall Dandrehen or Odenhen, Caxton. and manie other men of name.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the battell, king Peter went to Burgus, and was receiued into the citie, and shortlie after, that is to say, on the wednesdaie folowing, the prince came thither, and there held his Easter with king Peter, and tarried there aboue thrée weekes. Froissard. In the meane time, they of Asturgus, Toledo, Lisbone, Cor|doua, Galice, Siuill, and of all other places of the kingdome of Spaine, came in, and did homage vnto king Peter, promising him to be true to him euer after: for they saw that resistance would not auaile so long as the prince should be in the countrie. After this, the prince was in hand with king Peter, for the souldiers wages, by whose aid he was thus resto|red into his former estate. King Peter went vnto Siuill, to make shift for monie accordinglie, promi|sing to returne againe, within a few weekes, and to sée euerie man paid, according as he had couenan|ted. For when he was driuen out of his realme, and came to Burdeaux to craue aid of the prince, he pro|mised, that so soone as he should be restored to his kingdome, he would see the souldiers contented of their wages, and bound himselfe thereto, both by his oth and writing giuen vnder his seale. But when he obteined his purpose, he forgat all fréendlie dutie, and was so farre from performing his promise, that he cloaked his ill meaning with a feigned tale, and sent the prince a message spiced with hypocrisie and vnthankfulnesse, two foule faults in a priuat man, much more odious in a prince and great state, as the poet wiselie and truelie saith in this distichon:

Omne animi vitium tantò conspectius in se

Crimen habet, quantò maior qui peccat habetur.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The prince tarried for the returne of king Peter, both weekes and moneths, but could not heare anie tidings of him. He therefore sent vnto him, to vnder|stand the cause of the staie: his answer was, that he had prouided monie, and sent it by certeine of his men toward the prince, but the companions that ser|ued vnder the prince, had met with it by the way, and taken it from them that had the conueiance of it: he therefore required the prince to rid the realme of those snaphances,King Peters dissimulation and to leaue behind him some of his officers, to whome in name of him he would make paiment of such monie as was due. This an|swer pleased not the prince, but there was no reme|die, for other at that present he could not haue, for a|nie likeliehood he saw: and therefore, taking order with king Peter how the paiment should be made, EEBO page image 400 he prepared to returne into Gascoigne. The order therefore taken betwixt them, was this. Within foure moneths next insuing, king Peter should paie the one halfe of the wages due to the soldiers for this iournie vnto such as the prince should leaue behind him to receiue the same, and the other halfe within one yeare.