Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The French king prouided a great number of ships to assemble togither at Harflew,The French king prepa|reth a nauie. and leuied a great power of men, minding to bestow them aboord in the same ships, that they might saile into England, and make warre against king Edward in his owne countrie. Cheefteine of this armie should haue beene his brother the duke of Burbon, but this iournie was broken, for the Frenchmen were eased of the paine to come to séeke the Englishmen at home in England, they comming ouer into France, and prof|fering them battell euen at their owne doores. For the king of England hauing leuied a power of ar|chers, and other men of warre, sent them ouer vnder the leading of his sonne the duke of Lancaster.The duke of Lancaster sẽt into France with an armie There went with him in this iournie, the earles of Here|ford and Salisburie, the lord Ros, the lord Basset, the lord Willoughbie, the lord de la Ware, the lord de la Pole, the lord Walter of Mannie, the lord Henrie Percie, the lord Thomas Grantson, sir Alane Bur|hul, sir Richard Sturrie, & diuerse other. They went ouer about Midsummer. And after they had rested a little, the duke set forward and roded foorth into the countrie, spoiling and harrieng the same, and when he saw time, returned againe to Calis.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The French king being at Roan, heard of the ar|riuall of this armie at Calis, and that his countrie of Picardie was in great danger: he changed his purpose therefore of sending an armie into Eng|land, and with all spéed appointed that his power should with his brother the duke of Burgognie turne toward Calis, to resist the duke of Lancaster. Here|vpon when the duke of Lancaster heard that the duke of Burgognie was thus comming toward him, he issued foorth of Calis, and comming into the vallie beneath the hill of Turneham, there tooke his field, and fortified the place with strong hedges and ram|piers,

The duke of Lancaster fortifieth his campe.

The duke of Burgognie. Fabian. Froissard.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There was come to the duke of Lancaster a knight of the marches of Almaine,Sir Robert de Namur. called sir Robert de Na|mur with an hundred speares: but yet the duke of Lancasters host was but one handfull of men, in re|spect of the huge number of the French armie, wher|in were (as Froissard writeth) foure thousand knights beside others. But yet for all his great puissance and number of men, he would not aduenture to assaile the Englishmen in their lodgings, as it was thought he would haue doone, but kept himselfe and his men vpon the hill, from the foure and twentith of August, vnto the twelfth of September, and then dislodged not much to his honour, howsoeuer writers doo ex|cuse EEBO page image 404 it, declaring how his b [...]o [...]her had giuen him streight comman [...]ement, that in no wise he should fight with the Englishmen: and that when he had sent to his brother for commission either to fight, or to remooue, he was commanded to turne with all speed vnto Paris, and to breake vp his armie for that time. Some there be that write, how that after both these hostes had lien the one against the other a long space, Caxton. to the reproofe of both chiefteins, it chanced that the lord Thomas Beauchampe earle of Warwike came thitherward by sea,The earle of Warwike. to be at the battell, which he heard would shortlie follow betweene the two ar|mies: but yer he was come to land, the Frenchmen for feare durst no longer abide, but secretlie in the night departed and fled towards Hesdin, and so to Paris, for the which their flight, the duke of Bur|gognie was after blamed of his brother the French king.