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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 These ambassadors were staied for the space of two moneths, & still they complained of the wrongs that the Englishmen had doone, contrarie to the co|uenants of the peace, but the king made small ac|count thereof, bicause he perceiued it was a forged matter that they alledged, and so in the end sent them awaie. At Douer being vpon their returne, there met them a Britaine that was comming with let|ters of defiance to the king of England from the French king, and as he had in commandement, he declared to them the effect of his message, whervpon with all spéed they passed ouer to Bullongne, and were glad they had so escaped. The Britaine came to the court,The French king sent to defie the king of England. and deliuered the defiance to the king, ac|cording to the instructions which he had receiued. When the king had heard the letters read, and percei|ued by good view taken of the seale and signet, that the same were of authoritie, he licenced the messen|ger to depart, and fell in councell with the peeres of his realme, what he should doo in so weigthie a mat|ter. Wherevpon it was thought necessarie by them, that he should assemble his court of parlement, and so he did. In the which (vpon declaration made how iniuriouslie the French king after manie wrongfull dealings had now broken the peace, Polydor. A parlement assembled. and sent his de|fiance vnto the king in so despitefull wise as might be) there was granted towards the maintenance of the warre thus begun,Thrée fiftéens and thrée tenths gran|ted. Fabian. Froissard. thrée fifteens of the temporal|tie, and thrée dismes of the spiritualtie, to be paied in thrée yeares.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At the selfe same time that the defiance was made to the king here in England, the earle of S. Paule, and Guie de Chatillon master of the crosbowes in France, entered into the countie of Ponthieu, tooke Abuile,Sir Nicho|las Louaigne taken. and an English knight called sir Nicholas Louaigne seneshall of that countrie vnder the king of England, as then being within it. They tooke al|so saint Ualerie, Crotoie, Rue, Pont saint Renie,The [...] of Pont [...] taken by t [...]e French [...]. and to be short, reduced the whole countrie of Pon|thieu vnder the French obeisance, which had remai|ned in possession of the Englishmen for the space of a hundred and twelue yeares, euer since Edward the first had the same assigned to him in name of a dow|rie, with his wife queene Elianor, sister to Alfonse K. of Castile. And yet were the people of that coun|trie readie now to reuolt to the French dominion, notwithstanding their former long continued obei|sance to the Englishmen: for otherwise could not the Frenchmen so easilie haue come to their purpose, but that the people were couenanted before to re|ceiue them, and betraie those few Englishmen that were amongst them.