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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Gouernour of this siege at the first, was Yuan or Owen of Wales, but he was murthered one mor|ning as he sat alone viewing the castell, and com|bing his head, by one of his owne countriemen, which vnder colour to serue him, was become with him verie familiar. This Owen or Yuan whether ye will (for all is one) was sonne to a noble man of Wales, whom K. Edward had put to death for some offense by him committed, where this Yuan got him into France, being as then verie yoong, and was brought vp in the French court, and prooued an ex|pert man of warre, so that great lamentation was made for his death by the Frenchmen. But the Eng|lishmen, although they misliked the maner of his death, yet they were not greatlie sorrowfull for the chance, sith they were rid thereby of an extreame eni|mie.

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