Compare 1577 edition: 1 The realme of France in this meane while was disquieted, with the two factions of Burgognie and Orleance,France dis|quieted with two factions. in most miserable wise, as in the French histories it maie further appeare. Neither could the king, being a lunatike person, and féeble of braine, take any full order for reforming of such mischéefs, so that the whole state of the kingdome was maruel|louslie brought in decaie: neither tooke those troubles end by the death of the duke of Orleance (murthered at length through the practise of the duke of Burgo|gnie) but rather more perilouslie increased.The duke of Orleance murthered. For the yoong duke of Orleance Charles, sonne to duke Le|wes thus murthered, alied himselfe with the dukes of Berrie and Burbon, and with the earles of Alan|son & Arminacke, whereby he was so stronglie ban|ded against the duke of Burgognie, whom he defied as his mortall fo and enimie, that the duke of Bur|gognie fearing the sequele of the matter, thought good (because there was a motion of mariage betwixt the prince of Wales & his daughter) to require aid of king Henrie, who foreséeing that this ciuill discord in France (as it after hapned) might turne his realme to honor and profit, sent to the duke of Burgognie, Thomas earle of Arundell,The earles of Arundell and Angus with others sent to aid the duke of Burgo|gnie. Gilbert Umfreuill earle of Angus (commonlie called the earle of Kime) sir Robert Umfreuill, vncle to the same Gilbert, sir Iohn Didcastell lord Cobham, sir Iohn Greie, and William Porter, with twelue hundred archers.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 They tooke shipping at Douer, & landed at Sluis, from whence with speedie iournies in the latter end of this twelfth yeare of king Henries reigne they came to Arras, where they found the duke of Bur|gognie, of whom they were ioifullie receiued, & from thence he appointed them to go vnto Peron, where he assembled a power also of his owne subiects, and re|moouing from thence, he marched through the coun|trie, by Roie, Bretueill, Beauois, and Gisors, till he came with his armie vnto Pontois, where he remai|ned about the space of thrée wéeks. Anno Reg. 13. From Pontois the two and twentith of October, the duke of Burgo|gnie marched towards Paris, and passing the riuer of Saine at Pont Meulene, he staid not till he came to Paris, into the which he entred the 23 of October, late in the euening. The duke of Orleance laie at the same time at saint Denis, with the more part of his armie, & the residue kept the towne of S. Clou, where a bridge laie ouer the riuer of Saine.Saint Clou taken by the helpe of the Englishmen. On the 9 of Nouember, with hard & sharpe fight the Eng|lishmen gat the towne of saint Clou, with the bridge, slue & drowned nine hundred souldiors that were set there to defend that passage, besides 400 that were taken prisoners. They tooke also aboue 12 hundred horsses, which they found in the towne, with great ri|ches, whereof the men of warre made their profit.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Among other prisoners, sir Manserd de Bos a va|liant capteine was taken,Sir Man|serd de Bos put to death. and shortlie after put to death, as diuerse other were, which the Burgognians bought of the Englishmen that had taken them pri|soners. The tower that stood at the end of the bridge could not be woone. At an other bickering also, it chanced that the Englishmen, Harding. vnder the leading of the earle of Angus or Kime, had the vpper hand, and tooke manie prisoners, whom the duke of Burgognie would that they should haue béene likewise put to death as traitors to their countrie, but the said earle of Angus answered for himselfe, and the residue of the Englishmen, that they would rather die all in the place, than suffer their prisoners to be vsed other|wise than as men of war ought to be, that is, to haue their liues saued, and to be ransomed according as the law of armes required, and by that meanes they were preserued. The duke of Burgognie hauing the world at will (for the duke of Orleance immediatlie after the losse of saint Clou, departing from saint Denis, got him into the high countries) sent home the Englishmen with hartie thanks, and great re|wards.