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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Frenchmen glad of this chance, assembled a great number to fetch the other gun, which laie yet in the lane. But the lord Berners being capteine of the pioners, and hearing all these things, prepared to re|couer that gun; and so in the morrow ment to fetch it. There were appointed to go backe to see him safe con|ducted, the earle of Essex with his companie of speares, sir Rice ap Thomas with his retinue, and sir Iohn Neuill with the Northumberland men. The Almans also were commanded to retire backe to the succours of them that were gone for the gun. The Al|mans went foorth, till they came within two miles of the place where the gun laie, and further they would not go. The Frenchmen to the number of nine or ten thousand men (as some estéemed) were abroad, and came toward the place where the Englishmen were carting the peece of ordinance.