Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Then the English ambassadors,The leag [...]e renewed be|twéene Eng|land and France. renewing the league and amitie betwixt king Henrie & the French king, for the space of twelue moneths, they returned into England, and shewed the king all things that they had either heard or séene; so that he perceiued that the French king dealt craftilie in this matter of EEBO page image 769 Britaine, still motioning peace when he meant no|thing else but warre.The king cal|l [...]th a parle|ment. He therefore called his high court of parlement, in the which it was not onelie de|termined that the duke of Britaine should be aided with a power of men against the wrongfull inuasi|ons of the Frenchmen, but also there were diuerse summes of monie granted to the furnishing foorth and maintenance of the same. And immediatlie hervpon, the king sent his ambassadors into France to certifie the French king what the estates assem|bled in parlement here in England had decréed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Wherefore he required him either to surceasse the warres which he had in hand against the Britons,A perempto| [...] ambassage [...] of Eng|land into France. or else not to be gréeued though he condescended to the iudgement and determination of the lords both spi|rituall and temporall, and commons of his realme, in taking vpon him the defense of the duke of Bri|taine; promising neuerthelesse that the English ar|mie should onelie take land within the duchie of Bri|taine, and séeke to defend the same against all those that did inuade it, and not to make anie warre with|in the French dominions. This message was no|thing regarded of the French king, in so much that the French armie procéeded in oppressing the Bri|tons, destroieng the countrie, and besieging townes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At length on the seuen and twentith, or (as the chro|nicles of Aniou haue) the eight and twentith daie of Iulie, the duke of Britains armie gaue battell to the French host néere to a towne called saint Aulbin, ha|uing apparelled a thousand and seuen hundred of the Britons in coates with red crosses,The battell of saint Aulbin in Britaine, betweene the duke of Bri|taine and the French king. after the English fashion, to make the Frenchmen beleeue that they had a great number of Englishmen, although they had but foure hundred onelie with the lord Wooduile. The victorie in this battell fell to the Frenchmen, so that almost all the Englishmen were slaine with the lord Wooduile,Lord Wood|u [...]le slaine. beside six thousand Britons. The duke of Orleance and the prince of Orainge were taken prisoners, which were there on the Britons part. The Frenchmen lost twelue hundred men, and amongst other, that valiant Italian capteine Iames Galeot.