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Compare 1577 edition: 1 After they had fought a good season togither, at length they agreed to discouer either to other their names; so as the lord Barbason; first declaring what he was; the king likewise told him, that he was the king of England. Wherevpon, Barbason percei|uing with whome he had fought, caused the barriers foorthwith to be closed, and withdrew into the citie, and the king returned backe to his campe. At length, vittels within the towne began to faile, and the pesti|lence began to wax hot, so that the lord Barbason began to treat; and in conclusion, about the middest of Nouember (as Fabian saith) the towne was yeel|ded vpon certeine conditions, where of one was,It was sur|rendred about Alhalontide, as Thom. Wal. noteth. that all that were consenting to the death of the duke of Burgognie, should be deliuered to the king of Eng|land, of whome the lord Barbason was suspected to be one.Melun yéel|ded vp to king Henrie. The king sent them vnder the conduct of his brother the duke of Clarence, to the citie of Paris, whereof the French king made him capteine, and so at his comming thither, he tooke possession of the Ba|still of S. Anthonie, the Loure, the house of Néelle, and the place of Bois de Uincennes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Monsieur de Barbason was accused by the duke of Burgognie, Titus Liuius and his sisters as guiltie to their fa|thers death; but he in open court defended himselfe as not guiltie of that crime, granting indeed and con|fessing, that he was one of the familiar seruants to the Dolphin, but that he was priuie or consenting to the death of the duke of Burgognie, he vtterlie deni|ed. Wherevpon he was not condemned, neither yet acquited, by reason of such presumptions and coniec|tures as were alledged and brought against him, so that he remained in prison at Paris and else-where, the space of nine yeares, till at length, being brought vnto castell Galliard, it chanced that the same castell was woone by those of the Dolphins part, and he be|ing as then prisoner there, escaped out of danger, and so by that means was set at libertie, as after shall appeare.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Some write, that he had béene put to death,Note this ap [...]peale. if he had not appealed from king Henries sentence, vnto the iudgement of the officers at armes; alledging, that by the lawe of armes,A note in law of armes. no man hauing his bro|ther in armes within his danger, afterwards ought to put him to death for any cause or quarell. And that he was the kings brother in armes he prooued it, for that he had fought with him hand to hand within the mines (as before yee haue heard) which combat was thought of equall force by the heralds, as if he had fought with the king bodie to bodie, within solemne lists. The credit of this matter we leaue to the con|sideration of the readers. The earle of Huntington was made capteine of Melum. In defense of this towne and castell, W. P. the French had gotten vnto them manie Scots. At the siege héere the king kept with him yoong Iames of Scotland, who sent to those Scots, that they should come out and yéeld them vn|to him, and not to stand in armes against their liege lord and king; but they gaue word backe againe, they could not take him for king, that was in the power of another, and so kept them in hold and in their ar|mor still. King Henrie vpon winning of these forts, for their rebellion against their prince, which they would haue to be counted constancie, and for their contemptuous answer vnto him, twentie of the proudest, in example of the rest, caused he there to be hanged at once.

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