Compare 1577 edition: 1 Diuerse sorts of maskes were shewed also that night: and at euerie side of the palace a great cup|boord of massie plate of much greatnesse was set, the French king welcomming the lords and ambas|sadours with good countenance.] Here is to be re|membred, that immediatlie after the conclusion of the marriage, a rumor was raised, that the Dolphin was dead before, and that this marriage was but a colourable pretext, deuised of the Frenchmen for a policie to come by their purpose: and therefore, after that the English ambassadours had beene feasted and interteined with banketting and princelie pastime, the bishop of Elie, with sir Thomas Bullen, and sir Richard Weston, were appointed to go vnto Coniacke to see the Dolphin, where they were hono|rablie receiued, and brought vnto the presence of the Dolphin, being a goodlie yoong child, whome they kis|sed and imbraced in most louing wise.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The earle of Worcester, and with him sir Nicho|las Uaux, sir Iohn Pechie, sir Edward Belknap, and diuerse others at the same time, tooke leaue of the French king, and rode to Tornaie to sée the citie deliuered to the Frenchmen. Wherevpon, the eight of Februarie, the lord Chatillon came thither with one and twentie hundred men; and after some con|trouersie mooued about the deliuerie of his commis|sion, and sealing an indenture, which the earle had there readie ingrossed, conteining the articles of a|greement, in consideration whereof it was deliue|red, the capteine sir Richard Ierningham was dis|charged, and the Frenchmen suffered to enter with drumslads and minstrelsie,The maner how Tornaie was deliuered to the French king. but not with standards nor banners, which the Englishmen caused them to roll vp greatlie against their wils. Before they came to the gates, they sealed the indenture, confessing how they receiued the citie as a gift, and not as a right, and deliuered their commission, whereby they were authorised to receiue it, which at the first they re|fused to doo, affirming that it was sufficient for them to shew it.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus was Tornaie deliuered in this tenth yeare of the kings reigne, on the eight daie of Februarie, & the Englishmen returned into England, sore dis|pleased in their minds. For thereby manie a tall yeo|man lacked liuing, the which would not labour after their returne, but fell to robbing, pilfering, shifting, and other extraordinarie meanes of maintenance, whereas before they were staied vpon a certeintie of hope, so long as they had allowance by the king. So that this resignation of Tornaie, though it were an|swerable to the desire of the French king, and com|modious for his people, yet that benefit of theirs bred EEBO page image 850 to the English soldiors detriment and losse: who wi|shed in their harts to haue left their liues behind them in defense of possession, rather than it should re|uert into the hands of them, by whome it was surren|dred & giuen vp to the English power, whom (bicause they were not able to incounter) they let in at their gates by a voluntarie motion and common consent for their better safetie, as a late writer witnesseth:

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