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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The citie of Terrouan was stronglie fortified with walles, rampiers, bulworks, and large ditches.The lord Pontremie capteine of Terwine. The lord Pontremie was gouernour within it, ha|uing with him six hundred horssemen, and 2500 Al|mans, besides the inhabitants. The walles & towers were full of ordinance, which oftentimes did much dis|pleasure to the Englishmen.Terwine besieged. The earle of Shrewes|burie planted his siege on the northwest side of the towne, and the lord Herbert on the east side, causing great trenches to be made to couer his people with|all: for on that side there was no hill to succour or defend him. The Frenchmen and Almans would di|uerse times issue out, but the archers were euer rea|die to beat them into the citie againe. The earle of Shrewesburie got into an hollow ground or vallie néere to the citie, and likewise the lord Herbert (by reason of his trenches) approched likewise verie néere to the ditches.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The seuen and twentith daie of Iune being mon|daie, sir Nicholas Uaux and sir Edward Belknap, hauing with them foure hundred and thrée score men set from Guisnes to conduct foure and twentie carts laden with vittels towards the siege at Terrouan; but the duke of Uandosme lieutenant of Picardie with eight hundred horssemen set on them as they passed through Ard, and found them so out of order, that notwithstanding all that the English capteins could doo to bring men into arraie, it would not be: for the Frenchmen set on so readilie, that they kept the Englishmen in sunder. Yet the horssemen of Guisnes, being not past foure and twentie in all, tooke their speares and ioined with the Frenchmen right manfullie, and likewise thrée score archers shot freshlie at their enimies; but the Frenchmen were so manie in number, that they obteined the place, slue eight gentlemen, and diuerse archers. Sir Nicholas Uaux and sir Edward Belknap fled toward Guis|nes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Thus were the vittels lost, and yet the French|men went not awaie with cleere hands: for those few archers that closed togither, shot so egerlie, that they slue and hurt diuerse Frenchmen; and on the field laie foure score and seuen great horsses, which died there in the place, and neuer went further. On the fiftéenth day of Iune the K. departed from Gréene|wich, taking his iourneie towards Douer,The king in person pasteth ouer into France. whither he came by easie iournies, and the quéene in his com|panie. After he had rested a season in the castell of Douer, and taken order for the rule of the realme in his absence, he tooke leaue of the queene, and entring his ship the last daie of Iune, being the daie of saint Paule: he sailed ouer to Calis, where he was recei|ued with great ioy by the deputie sir Gilbert Talbot and all other there. At his entring into Calis, all the banished men entred with him, and were restored to the libertie of the towne. The king laie in Calis a certeine time, till all his prouisions were readie, but the armie laie in campe at Newnham bridge.

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