Compare 1577 edition: 1 Polydor. But now touching the dooings about the new K. You shall vnderstand, that by reason of his yoong yeares, as yet he was not able to gouerne himselfe, and therefore Iohn duke of Lancaster,The duke of Lancaster & the earle of Cambridge appointed protectors. and Edmund earle of Cambridge, with other péeres of the realme, were appointed to haue the administration. He was of good disposition and towardnesse, but his age being readie to incline which way soeuer a man should bend it, those that were appointed to haue the gouerne|ment of his person, did what laie in them now at the first, to keepe him from all maner of light demeanor. But afterwards, when euerie one began to studie more for his owne priuate commoditie, than for the aduancement of the common-wealth, they set open the gates to other, which being readie to corrupt his good nature, by little and little grew familiar with him, and dimming the brightnesse of true honour, with the counterfeit shine of the contrarie, so maske|red his vnderstanding, that in the end they brought him to tract the steps of lewd demeanor, and so were causers both of his and their owne destruction. This séemeth to be touched by C. Okland, who speaking of the death of the old king and the erection of the new, saith of him according to our annales, as followeth:

In Angl. prael.Vndecimum puer hic nondum transegerat annum,

Cùm iuuenile caput gessit diademate cinctum.

Qui postquam princeps iustis adoleuerat annis.

Dicere non facile est quantum distaret auitis

Moribus atque animo, fuit hic quàm disparemente,

Dissimili ingenio clarae matríque patríque.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The Frenchmen not ignorant of such mischéefes as were like to grow in England, suffered no time to passe, but tooke occasions of aduantage when they were offered. Froissard. ¶ Among other enterprises I find, that shortlie after the deceasse of king Edward, the duke of Burgognie wan Arde, and two or three other fortresses in those marches. The Scots this yeare al|so wan the castell of Berwike by stealth one mor|ning,Berwike ca|stell woone by the Scots. but shortlie vpon knowledge had, the earles of Northumberland and Notingham, the lords Ne|uill, Lucie, Graistoke, & Stafford, with other lords, knights, and esquiers, came with their powers in all hast thither, and entring the towne, besieged the ca|stell, and finallie, assaulting them that kept it, wan it of them by force, and slue all those Scotishmen which they found within it, except Alexander Ramsie their capteine.Berwike ca|stell recoue|red by the Englishmen. When the Englishmen had thus recouered the castell, they entered into Scotland, in hope to find the Scots, and to fight with them whom they knew to be assembled.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The English host was three thousand men of armes, & seuen thousand archers, but they sent foorth sir Thomas Musgraue with three hundred speares, and three hundred archers, to Meuros, to trie if he might vnderstand any thing of the Scots in those parts, with whom the earle Dowglas, hauing with him seuen hundred speares, and two thousand of other called yomen with glaiues and other weapons, incountered by chance and distressed him & his companie. Sir Thomas Musgraue himselfe, and six score other, were taken prisoners, An ouer|throw [...] by the [...] to the Eng|lishmen. besides those that were slaine, the residue escaped by flight, making the best shift they could for themselues. The lord Neuill, sir Thomas Triuet, sir William Scrope, and diuerse other valiant capteins of England, were sent into Gascoigne this yeare, which first landed at Burdeaux, on the euen of the Natiuitie of our ladie, where after they had rested them a while, they went and raised the siege, The siege of Morta [...]g [...]s raised. whcih the Frenchmen had held before Mortaigne in Poictou a long time before.