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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king hauing all his prouisions readie for the warre, and meaning to passe the sea in his owne per|son, for the better taming of the loftie Frenchmen, appointed that worthie councellor and right redoub|ted chéefteine, the noble George Talbot earle of Shrewesburie,The earle of Shrewesbu|rie sent into France with [...] armie. high steward of his houshold, to be capteine generall of his fore-ward; and in his com|panie were appointed to go, the lord Thomas Stan|leie earle of Derbie, lord Decowreie prior of saint Iohns, sir Robert Ratcliffe lord Fitzwater, the lord Hastings, the lord Cobham, sir Rice ap Thomas, sir Thomas Blunt, sir Richard Sacheuerell, sir Iohn Digbie, sir Iohn Askew, sir Lewes Bagot, sir Tho|mas Cornewall, and manie other knights, esqui|ers, and souldiers; to the number of eight thousand men. These passed the sea, and came all to Calis a|bout the middle of Maie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The lord Herbert called sir Charles Summer|set, lord chamberleine to the king, in the end of the same moneth followed the said earle of Shrewesbu|rie, with six thousand men: in whose companie were the erls of Northumberland Percie, of Kent Greie, of Wilshire Stafford, the lord Dudleie, the lord De|laware, and his sonne sir Thomas West, sir Ed|ward Husseie, sir Edward Dimmocke, sir Dauid Owen, with manie other knights, esquiers, and gentlemen. After they had soiourned certeine daies in Calis, and that all their necessaries were readie, they issued foorth of the towne, so to begin their campe. And first the earle of Shrewesburie and his companie tooke the field, and after him the lord Her|bert with his retinues in manner of a rere-ward. Then followed that valiant knight sir Rice ap Tho|mas, with fiue hundred light horssemen and archers on horssebacke, who ioined himselfe to the fore-ward, a gentleman of such spirit and hardinesse, that he is named the floure of the Welshmen, as the poet saith:

—Ricius Thomas flos Cambrobritannûm.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 These two lords thus imbattelled did remooue the seuentéenth of Iune to Sandifield, & on the eightéenth they came to Marguison, on the further side of the water, as though they would haue passed streight|waies to Bullongne.The English armie mar|cheth vnto Terwine. But they meaning an other thing, the next daie tooke an other waie, and so coasted the countrie with such diligence, that the two and twentith of Iune they came before the strong citie of Terrouan, and pight their tents a mile from the towne. The same night (as certeine capteins were in councell within the lord Herberts tent) the baron Carew was slaine with a bullet shot out of the towne;The baron of Carew slaine. which sudden aduenture much dismaied the assemblie, but the lord Herbert comforted them with manlie words, and so his death was passed ouer. All the countrie of Artois and Picardie fortified their holds, and made shewes as the English armie pas|sed, but they durst not once assaile them.

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