Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now, when it was perceiued certeinlie that open rebellion would therof insue, and that king Edward was certified of the whole state of the matter, and how diuerse of the lords of Aquitaine were with|drawne vnto the court of France, in manner as be|fore yée haue heard, he deuised a letter, which he cau|sed to be published through all the parts of Aquitaine the effect whereof was this;A letter pub|lished by the prince to ap|pease the Gas|coignes. That where the people of that countrie found themselues greeued for such ex|actions as were demanded of them, he meant there|fore vpon examination of their iust complaints, to see their wrongs redressed. And further, he was con|tented to pardon all such as were withdrawne to the French king, so that within a moneths space they would returne home; requiring them, that in no wise they should stirre anie seditious tumult, but to remember their oths of allegiance, and to continue in the same, according to their bounden duties; and as for him, he would be readie to sée them eased, that would shew by plaine proofe how they had beene o|therwise gréeued than reason might beare. This was his meaning, and this was the aduise of all his coun|cellours.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But this courteous letter little auailed, for dailie the Gascoignes reuolted from the prince, and turned to the French part. Moreouer, Ia. Meir. another occasion of grudge chanced to renew the malice betwixt the K. of England, and the French king. For whereas yée haue heard, that the earle of Flanders had affianced his daughter and heire to the lord Edmund of Lang|lie, earle of Cambridge, a shift was made, name|lie by the earles mother the countesse of Arthois, who was all French, that notwithstanding the same af|fiance,Philip duke of Burgognie marieth y^e erle of Flanders daughter. she was married to Philip duke of Burgog|nie, who was surnamed the Hardie, by this occasion, as I. Meir saith. It chanced, that whilest he was priso|ner in England with his father, he was vpon a time appointed to wait at the table, where his father and the king of England sat togither at meat. And bi|cause a noble man of England that was appointed likewise to attend at the same table,The cause of his surname le Hardie. serued first the king of England before the king of France, this Philip vp with his fist, and tooke the English lord a blow on the eare, saieng; Wilt thou serue the king EEBO page image 402 of England first, where the French king sitteth at the same table? The Englishman out with his dagger, & would haue striken the said Philip, but the king of England streictlie charged him to the contrarie, and praising the déed of the yoong stripling, said vnto him, Vous estes Philip le hardie, Thou art (said he) the hardie Philip. And so from that daie he bare that name euer after. There be other that saie, how he tooke that sur|name, bicause in the batell of Poictiers he abode still with his father till the end of the battell, without shewing any token of feare, or faintnes of courage.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The earles of Arminacke and Perigord, with the other lords of Gascoigne,The earles of Arminacke & Perigord. Froissard. that had made their ap|peale (as ye haue heard) to the chamber of the peeres of France, when they vnderstood that the prince had imprisoned the messengers, that brought to him the French kings letters, began to make warre on the princes lands. The first enterprise they made, was the discomfiting of the lord Thomas Wake s [...]ne|shall of Rouergne,The L. Wake discomfited. as he was riding from Agen vn|to the citie of Rodais, with threescore spears, and two hundred archers in his companie. Also the French king being now prouided for the war, and vnderstan|ding the minds of the people within certeine towns vnder the dominion of the Englishmen, Fabian. The French king procée|deth against the prince in iudgement of the appeale. Froissard. in his high court of parlement holden at Paris, procéeded in iudgement vpon the appellation before made by the earles of Arminacke, Perigord, and others, against prince Edward. And moreouer he sent ouer into England the earle of Salisbruch, and a knight called sir William Dorman, to signifie to the king of Eng|land, how he thought himselfe not honorablie vsed, & that the king of England did but slenderlie kéepe the couenants of the peace, considering that he did not find meanes to reforme such of his subiects Eng|lishmen and Gascoignes, as dailie robbed and wa|sted the countries & lands belonging to the crowne of France.