Compare 1577 edition: 1 The French king this yeare besieged and wan the towne of Dam, after he had béene at great charges about it. Whilest his nauie returned from Scluis, where the same had laien at anchor a long time, the ships by tempest were scattered & wether-driuen, so that in the feast daie of the exaltation of the crosse, two of their gallies, a great ship, a barge, and seauen balengers were cast on shore about Calis, & the Ca|lisians tooke fiue hundred Frenchmen and Normans that escaped to land. An other day 72 French ships (as they were comming from Scluis,A good victo|rie of them of Calis against the French fléet. to passe by Ca|lis, were met with by them of Calis, who behaued themselues so manfullie, that they tooke 18 of those French ships, and a great barke, in which thrée score armed men were slaine before it could be taken. Within three daies after this, the Calisians met 45 other French ships, and after six houres fight obtei|ned the victorie, taking thrée of the most principall vessels, whereof one being a hulke of Eastland was hired by the Normans, to gard the residue. The other two that were taken were of such mold, that they could not enter into the hauen at Calis, and there|fore were sent to Sandwich, the one of them being a new ship, which the lord Clisson had bought at Scluis, Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knigh|ton canon of Leicester abbeie. paieng for hir 3000 franks. ¶Henrie Knigh|ton saith it was prised or valued at 20000 florens, it was so tall, big, and large a vessell; and therefore of great capacitie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On saint Denise daie the soldiors of Calis and o|ther English fortresses thereabouts,The Calisi|ans & others make a rode into France & win great booties. made a secret iournie into France, and got a bootie of foure thou|sand shéepe, and three hundred head of great cattell, which they droue towards their holds; and as the lord de Rambures gouernour of Bullongne would haue recouered the preie, he was vnhorssed with the ren|counter of an English speare, and being relieued by his companie, and mounted againe, withdrew him|selfe, not attempting to trie any further masteries, and so the Englishmen safelie passed foorth with their bootie of cattell, and aboue a hundred good prisoners which they had taken at this rode. In this 9 yeare a|bout the feast of S. Martine, Fabian. the king called his high court of parlement at Westminster, in the which a|mongst other things there concluded, he created two dukes,Creation of dukes and earles at the parlement. a marques, and fiue earles. First Edmund Langlie earle of Cambridge the kings vncle was created duke of Yorke, Thomas of Woodstoke his other vncle earle of Buckingham was created duke of Glocester, Robert Uéere earle of Oxford was made marques of Deuelin,Henrie of Bolling|brooke earle of Derbie afterwards king. Henrie of Bollingbrooke sonne and heire to Iohn of Gaunt duke of Lanca|ster was created earle of Derbie: Edward Plan|tagenet sonne and heire to the Duke of Yorke was made earle of Rutland, Michaell lord de la Poole chancellor of England was created earle of Suf|folke, & sir Thomas Moubraie earle of Notingham was made earle marshall.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Also by authoritie of this parlement, Roger lord Mortimer earle of March,The lord Mortimer erle of March procl [...]ed heire appa|rant to the crowne. sonne and heire of Ed|mund Mortimer earle of March, and of the ladie Phi|lip eldest daughter and heire vnto Lionell duke of Clarence, third sonne to king Edward the third, was established heire apparant to the crowne of this realme, and shortlie after so proclaimed. The which earle of March, anon after the end of the same par|lement, sailed into Ireland to his lordship of Ulster, whereof he was owner by right of his said mother: but whilest he remained there to pacifie the rebelli|ons of the wild Irish,The earle of March [...] by the wild Irish. a great number of them togi|ther assembled, came vpon him and slue him, togither with the most part of his companie. This Roger earle of March had issue Edmund, Roger, Anne,The issue of the foresaid earle of March. Ales, & Eleanor, which Eleanor was made a nunne. The two sonnes died without issue, and Anne the el|dest of the daughters was married to Richard earle of Cambridge, sonne vnto Edmund of Langlie be|fore remembred: the which Richard had issue by the said Anne, a son called Richard, that was after duke of Yorke, and father to king Edward the fourth; also a daughter named Isabell, afterwards married to the lord Bourcher. This Richard earle of Cambridge was put to death by Henrie the fift, as after ye shall heare.