Compare 1577 edition: 1 But certeine of the horssemen to the number of thrée thousand came forward, and at the end of a wood shewed themselues in ope [...] [...] of the English ar|mie. And thus they stood countenancing the Eng|lishmen.The northern prickers plaie the men. Some of the northerne prickers made to them, and in skirmishing with them, tooke some of them prisoners. About noone the same daie, that va|liant Welsh knight sir Rice ap Thomas with his re|tinue of horssemen being departed from the siege of Terrouan came to the king, and streightwaies was sent to the earle of Essex, which with two hundred speares was laid in a stale, if the Frenchmen had come neerer. When they were ioined togither, they drew about the hill, hauing with them sir Thomas Guilford, with two hundred archers on horssebacke, meaning to set on the Frenchmen: which percei|uing that, and doubting least more companie had fol|lowed, they suddenlie drew backe, and ioined them with their great battell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then the earle of Essex and the English horsse|men followed them, till they came néere to the armie of France, and then scaled and sent foorth light horsse|men to view the demeanor of the Frenchmen. When the Frenchmen of armes were returned to their battell, then both the horssemen and footmen with|drew in order of battell, and still the English currors followed them for the space of three leagues, and then returned to the earle, making report to him of that they had séene, who then brake vp his stale, and came to the king, declaring to him how the Frenchmen were gone backe.The drie wednesdaie. This was called the drie wednes|daie; for the daie was woonderfull hot, and the king with his armie stood in order of battell, from six of the clocke in the morning till three of the clocke in the af|ter noone. And some died for lacke of moisture, and generallie euerie man was burned about the mouth with heat of the stomach; for drinke lacked, and wa|ter was not neere.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After this the king remooued toward Terrouan, and as he was setting forward, the lord Walon of Flanders came to him with his horssemen, which were alreadie in the kings wages. As the armie pas|sed, by negligence the same daie in a lane was o|uerthrowne one of the kings bombards of iron,The bombard called the red gun ouer|throwne. cal|led the red gun, and there left. The king lodged that night two miles from saint Omers on the north side of the towne. On the thursdaie, being the eight and twentith of Iulie, the maister carpenter with an hun|dred carpenters and labourers, without knowledge of the marshall, went to weie vp the great gun that was in the pond (as ye haue heard) and by force of engins drew it vp, and carted it readie to bring a|waie:The great gun gotten by the French, by the foolish hardinesse of the maister carpenter. but suddenlie there came an eight hundred Frenchmen with speares, crossebowes, and hand|guns, which set on the labourers so fiercelie, that not|withstanding their manfull defense, the most part of them were slaine and the residue taken, and both they and the péece of ordinance conueied to Bullongne.