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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 For the maister gunner Christopher Morreis hauing there certeine falcons,The maner of the winning of Morleis in Britaine by the earle of Surrie. with the shot of one of them, stroke the locke of the wicket in the gate, so that it flew open: and then the same Christopher and other gentlemen with their souldiers, in the smoke of the gunnes pressed to the gates, and finding the wicket open, entered, and so finallie was the towne of Morleis woone, and put to sacke. The souldiers gained much by the pillage, for the towne was excée|ding rich, and speciallie of linnen cloth. When they had rifled the towne throughlie, and taken their plea|sure of all things therein, the earle caused them by sound of trumpet to resort to their standards, and af|ter they had set fire in the towne, and burned a great part thereof, the earle retreated with his armie to|wards his ships, burning the villages by the waie, and all that night lay on land. On the morrow after they tooke their ships, and when they were bestowed on boord, the earle commanded sixtéene or seuenteene ships small and great, lieng there in the hauen, to be burnt.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the lord admerall had thus woone the towne of Morleis,Diuerse gen|tlemen knigh|ted by the erle of Surrie vpõ the winning of Morleis. he called to him certeine esquiers, and made them knights, as sir Francis Brian, sir An|thonie Browne, sir Richard Cornewall, sir Thomas Moore, sir Giles Huseie, sir Iohn Russell, sir Iohn Reinsford, sir George Cobham, sir Iohn Corne|wallis, sir Edward Rigleie, and diuerse other. After this they continued a while on the coast of Britaine, and disquieted the Britains by entering their ha|uens, and sometimes landing and dooing diuerse dis|pleasures to the inhabitants about the coast. After that the earle had lien a while thus on the coast of Britaine, hée was countermanded by the kings letters, who therevpon brought backe his whole fleet vnto a place called the Cow, vnder the Ile of Wight, and then went on land himselfe, discharging the more part of his people, and leauing the residue with certeine ships vnder the gouernance of the viceadmerall sir William Fitz Williams, to kéepe the seas against the French. Polydor.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this meane while, diuerse exploits were at|chiued betwixt them of the garrisons in the marches of Calis, & the Frenchmen of Bullo [...]gne and Bul|longnois: but still the losse ran for the most part on the French side. For the English frontiers were well and stronglie furnished with good numbers of men of warre, and gouerned by right sage and vali|ant capteins, which dailie made inuasions vpon the French confines,Sir William Sands [...] sir Edward Gilford [...] whips t [...] t [...]e Frenchmen and namelie sir William Sands treasuror of the towne of Calis, and sir Edward Gilford marshall, were two that did the Frenchmen most displeasure. On the third of Iulie, three hun|dred French horssemen comming néere to the castell of Guisnes, kept themselues in couert, appointing eight or ten of their companie to shew themselues in sight to the Englishmen within. Wherevpon there went foorth eight archers, and fell in skirmish with those horssemen, till there came thrée other to the re|scue of the Frenchmen, and skirmished with the ar|chers on foot.

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