Compare 1577 edition: 1 During the time that the siege laie before Ypres, the Englishmen swarmed abroad in the countrie, for when it was once knowne what good successe the first companie that went ouer had found, there came dailie foorth of England great numbers to be parta|kers of the gaine.Hope of gaine incourageth the soldier. Sir Iohn Philpot that fauoured the bishops iournie, prouided them of vessels for their passage, till the bishop vnderstanding that the more part of those that came thus ouer were vnarmed, and brought nothing with them from home, but onelie swords, bowes and arrowes, did write vnto the said sir Iohn Philpot, that he should suffer none to passe the seas, but such as were men able and likelie to doo seruice: where a great number of those that were come to him, were fit for nothing but to consume vittels, much like the popish shauelings and the Ro|mish rascalitie, of whome the like is spoken thus:

Nos numerus sumus & fruges consumere nati.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The multitude of Englishmen and Gauntiners at this siege was great, so that diuerse skirmishes chan|ced betwixt them, and such as were appointed by the earle to lie in garrisons about in the countrie a|gainst them: but still the victorie abode on the Eng|lish side. Also there was an English préest, one sir Iohn Boring that went to Gaunt with fiue hundred English archers, Ia. Meir. by whose aid Arnold Hans one of the capteins of Gaunt ouercame his enimies in bat|tell, which were laid in a castell neere to the hauen of Allost, and stopped that no vittels might safelie come out of Holland or Zeland to be conueied to Gaunt. The earle of Flanders was not well contented in his mind, Anno Reg. 7. that the Englishmen were thus entred in|to his countrie, and therefore earnestlie laboured to the duke of Burgognie (that had married his daugh|ter, and should be heire of all his dominions and seigniories after his deceasse) to find some remedie in the matter.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The duke, whome the matter touched so néere, did so much with his nephue the French king, that eftsoones he raised his whole puissance, and came downe into Flanders, so that the Englishmen perceiuing them|selues not of power to incounter with this huge and mightie armie, were constreined after a great as|sault, EEBO page image 444 which they gaue the eight of August, to raise their siege from Ypres the mondaie after,The siege at Ypres broken vp. being S. Laurence daie, and to withdraw into Bruckburge, Berghen, Dixmew, Newport, Cassell, Dunkirke, Grauelin, and other places which they had woon. But at Newport the townesmen set vp the earles ban|ner, and assailing those that were come into the towne,Newport sac|ked and burnt by the Eng|lishmen and Gauntiners. slue diuerse of them. The Englishmen being sore offended therewith, came running thither with certeine Gauntiners, and made great slaughter of them that had so murthered their fellowes. The towne was sacked, and all the goods aswell church iewels as other were sent awaie, partlie by sea into England, and partlie by waggons vnto Berge. Af|ter this, they set fire in more than thirtie places of the towne, so that there remained nothing vnburnt. The Englishmen & Gauntiners that were withdrawne into Berge, got togither all the waggons in the countrie about, placing the same vpon the diches and rampiers, to fortifie the same against their enimies.