Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time also, it fell so ill for the Eng|lishmen, that the prince of Wales was troubled with a sore sickenesse,The prince [...] Wales dis [...]|sed with sick|nesse. that had continued long with him, euer since his being in Spaine, by reason where|of his enimies were the more bold to make attempts against him, and dailie went about to allure and in|tise his subiects of the marches of Guien to reuolt from him, in somuch that the citie of Cahors,The citie of Cahors [...]|uolteth. and di|uerse other townes thereabout turned to the French part. Thus was the peace which had beene so suerlie made, and with so manie solemne oths confirmed, violated and broken, and the parties fallen togither by the eares againe in sundrie places, and namelie in Aquitaine, where sundrie armies were abroad in the fields, diuers sieges laid, manie townes taken, often incounters and skirmishes made, sometime to the losse of the one part, and sometime of the other, and the countries in the meane time harried and spoiled, that maruell it is to consider, and too long a processe it should be to rehearse the tenth part of such chances as dailie happened amongst them, so that it might well haue beene said of that sore & tumultuous time:

O quàm difficiles sunt sint pace dies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 King Edward sent ouer into Gascoigne the earls of Cambridge and Penbroke,Succors [...] into Gas|coigne. with a certeine num|ber of men of armes and archers, the which arriuing in Britaine, passed through that countrie by licence of the Duke, and came to the prince as then lieng at Angolesme in Poictou, by whom they were sent to o|uerrun the earle of Perigords lands, and so they did, and after laid siege to Burdille, hauing with them about thrée thousand men one and other.Burdille [...]|sieged. There came with them foorth of England foure hundred men of armes, foure hundred archers, and (as Frois|sard saith) beside their capteins, these earles which he nameth, to wit, the lord of Tabestone (or rather Bradstone as I take it) sir Brian Stapleton, sir Thomas Balaster, and sir Iohn Triuet. Whilest the said earles went thus to make warre against the earle of Perigord,Sir Hugh Caluerlie. sir Hugh Caluerlie with two thousand men of warre was sent also to ouerrun the lands of the earle of Arminacke, and of the lord Dal|bret;Sir Iohn Chandois. sir Iohn Chandois laie in the marches of Tho|louse at Mountaubon, & afterwards besieged Ter|rieres, and in the end wan it; and so likewise did the earles of Cambridge and Penbroke win Bur|dille,Burdille woon [...]. by reason of a saillie that they within made foorth, and passed so far from their fortresse, that the Englishmen got betwixt them and home.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Sir Robert Knols came from such lands as he had in Britaine,Sir Robert Knols. to serue the prince now in these warres of Gascoigne, and was by him made chéefe gouernor of all his men of warre, who bare himselfe right wor|thilie in that charge. The first iournie which he made at that time, was into Quercie, hauing with him be|side his owne hands, certeine knights of the princes retinue, as sir Richard Ponchardon, sir Stephan Gousenton, sir Noell Loring, sir Hugh Hastings, sir EEBO page image 403 Iohn Triuet, sir Thomas Spenser, sir Thomas Balaster, sir Nicholas Bond, sir William le Moins seneschall of Aigenois, sir Baldwin de Freuille, and others. At their comming into Quercie, they be|sieged a strong fortresse called Durmell, within the which were diuerse capteins of the companions, as Aimon d'Ortigo, the little Mechin, Iaques de Bray, Perot de Sauoie, and Arnaudon de Pons, the which so valiantlie defended the place, that although the lord Chandois, accompanied with sir Thomas Fel|ton, the capitall of Beuf, sir Iohn de Pommiers, sir Thomas Percie, sir Eustace Daubreticourt, and o|thers came with their retinues from Montaubon, to reenforce that siege, yet could they not obteine their purpose, but raising from thence after fiue weekes siege (constreined thereto through want of vittels) they marched streight to a towne called Domme, which they besieged, hauing in their armie fifteene hundred men at armes, B [...] Gerard. beside two thousand archers and brigands, so called in those daies, of an armor which they ware named brigandines, vsed then by footmen, that bare also targets, or pauoises, and certeine darts or iauelines to throw at their eni|mies.