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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king with a great puissance followed, and found them imbattelled on a high mounteine, where there was a great vallie betwixt both the armies, so that either armie might plainelie perceiue the other, and either host looked to be assailed of his aduersarie, & therefore sought to take the aduantage of ground. Thus they continued for the space of eight daies from morning till night, readie to abide, but not to giue battell. There were manie skirmishes, and di|uerse proper feats of armes wrought in that meane while,French lords slaine. in the which the French lost manie of their no|bles and gentlemen, as the lord Pa [...]rou [...]tars de Tries, brother to the marshall of France, the lord Matelonne or Martelonne, the lord de la Ualle, and the bastard of Bourbon, with other, to the number (as some haue written) of fiue hundred. But Engue|rant de Monstrellet affirmeth, that vpon their re|turne into France, there wanted not aboue thrée|score persons of all their companies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After they had laine thus one against an other the space of eight daies (as before is said) vittels began to faile, so that they were inforced to dislodge. The French and Welshmen withdrew into Wales, and though the Englishmen followed, yet impeached with the desart grounds and barren countrie, tho|rough which they must passe, as our felles and crag|gie mounteins, from hill to dale, from marish to wood, from naught to woorsse (as Hall saith) without vittels or succour, the king was of force constr [...]ned to retire with his armie, and returne againe to Wor|cester, in which returne the enimies tooke certeine ca|riages of his laden with vittels. The Frenchmen af|ter the armies were thus withdrawne, returned into Britaine,

The French|men returne home.

Anno Reg. 7.

making small brags of their painefull iournie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 This yeare at London, the earle of Arundell ma|ried the bastard daughter of the king of Portingale, the king of England and the quéene with their pre|sen [...] honoring the solemnitie of that feast, which was kept with all sumptuous roialtie, the morrow after saint Katharins daie. ¶And on the daie of the Con|ception of our ladie, the ladie Philip king Henries daughter was proclamed quéene of Denmarke, Norwaie, and Sweden, in presence of such ambassa|dors, as the last summer came hither from the king of those countries, to demand hir in marriage for him, and had so trauelled in the matter, that finallie they obteined it. Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walsin. Roiston bur|ned. ¶On the daie of the translation of saint Martine, the towne of Roiston was on fire. This yeare the first of March a parlement began, which continued almost all this yeare: for after that in the lower house they had denied a long time to grant to any subsidie:A parlement. yet at length, a little before Christmasse, in the eight yeare of his reigne they granted a fifteenth to the losse and great damage of the communaltie, for through lingering of time,A fiftéenth grãted by [...]he temporaltie. the expenses of knights and burgesses grew almost in value to the summe that was demanded.

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