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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Tho. Walsi. The prince was compelled to breake his plate, and to make monie thereof to paie his soldiers, name|lie,The prince put to his shifts for de| [...]ault of paie. the companions, which he had called foorth of France, so that he left himselfe bare of all riches, to kéepe touch with them, although king Dampeter failed in his promise each waie foorth. For where the prince should haue had in recompense towards his charges, the countie of Algezara, and other lands, by the said Dampeters assignement, so that he sent one of his knights to take seizine of the same lands, he was neuertheles disappointed, for he could not come by any peaceable possession of those lands, and so re|turned greatlie impouerished, hauing spent in this iournie all that he could make. In the meane time the bastard Henrie, hauing escaped out of the field by flight, got him into France, and there through fauor of the duke of Aniou, so purchased for himselfe, that he got togither a certeine number of Britains and o|ther soldiers, & comming to the frontiers of the prin|ces land in Gascoigne, got a towne in Bigore, cal|led Bannieres, and made war vpon the princes sub|iects.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The prince returneth into Gascoigne.The prince obteining passage for himselfe and his men, of the kings of Aragon and Nauarre, retur|ned to Burdeaux, and then did the bastard Henrie forsake his garrison at Bannieres, and went into Arragon, and there got the king of Arragons assi|stance: & finallie, in the yeare 1369, returning into Spaine, recouered the kingdome, and slue his bro|ther king Peter, as in the historie of Spaine it may appeare, which for that it apperteineth not to this hi|storie of England, I doo here passe ouer. This yeare, in the moneth of March, appeared a blasing starre, be|twixt the north and west,1368 Anno Reg. 42. whose beames stretched to|wards France as was then marked,A blasing starre. Polychron. Polydor. threatning (as might be thought) that within a small time after it should againe be wrapped and set on fire with new troubles of warre, and euen then, that countrie was not in quiet, but harried in diuerse parts, by such sol|diers as had béene with the prince in Spaine, & were now out of wages. The leaders of which people were for the more part Englishmen and Gascoignes, Froissard. as sir Robert Briquet, sir Iohn Tresmelle, Robert Ce|nie, sir Gaollard Uigier, the bourge of Bertueill, the bourge Camois of Cominges, as Denise Sauage thinketh, the bourge of Lespare, Nandon or Naw|don of Bargerant, Bernard de la Salle, Ortigo, Lamut, and manie other.