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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herewith issued out of Guisnes twelue de [...]|lances all Welshmen, in rescue of the footmen, and then all the troope of the French horssemen brake foorth and set on the Welshmen. The footmen, so long as they had anie arrowes to bestow, shot lustilie, and in the end were driuen to defend themselues with their swords. The Welshmen keeping togither, en|tered into the band of the Frenchmen, brake their speares, and after fought and laid about them with their swords, so that they made a waie, and escaped from those thrée hundred French horssemen. Of the French side were slaine thrée men and fiue horsses,The valian [...] of the We [...]men against the French. the English archers on foot selling their lines dearlie, were all slaine, for the Frenchmen would not take a|nie of them prisoners, they were so angrie for losse of their fellowes.

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