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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The third request was, that it might please him to choose out none other sepulchre when God should call him out of this world, but beside hir at Westmin|ster.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The praise of queene Phi|lip.This quéene, to traine the English youth vnto vertuous conuersation, & to giue occasion that they might be brought vp in learning and good instructi|ons, founded a colledge at Oxford, furnishing it with goodlie buildings,The quéenes colledge. and a church, that they might both serue God, and profit in their studies, wherevpon it is called the quéenes colledge euen to this daie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But now to returne to the duke of Lancaster. Ye shall vnderstand that after the departure of the French armie beside the hill of Turneham, the said duke returned to Calis, and there refreshed himselfe and his people the space of thrée daies. And then he set forward againe,The duke of Lãcaster ma|keth a iournie into France. & with him as marshals of the host, was the earle of Warwike, and the lord Roger Beauchampe, with the lords and knights before re|membred. They tooke their iournie to S. Omers, and by Turwin, and then through the countie of saint Paule, still burning the countrie as they went. They rode not past thrée or foure leages in a daie, and kee|ping on their waie,S. Riquier. they came by saint Riquier, and at the planches vnder Abuile passed the riuer of Some, and then entred into the countrie of Uimew, in purpose to go vnto Harflew, and there to burne the French kings nauie. Thus passing forward tho|rough Uimew, and the countie of Ewe, they entered into the archbishoprike of Roan, and marching foorth by Déepe, came vnto Harflew: but the earle of saint Poule, and the lord of Fiennes constable of France which had coasted the English armie in all this iour|nie, with a great power of men, was gotten before them, and entred into this towne, so that they knew how they should but lose their paine, if they did assaile it, and so therefore after they had lien before it thrée daies, on the fourth day they dislodged, & went backe againe towards Calis, returning through the coun|trie of Ponthieu, Fabian. The master [...] the crosbowes of France taken. and before Abuile chanced to in|counter a number of Frenchmen, which gaue to the duke battell. In the which was taken sir Hugh de Chatellon, master of the crosbowes of France, with other knights, esquiers, and burgesses of that towne, and about sixtéene score of the French part slaine.

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