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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the fiue and twentith of Iulie, the treasuror and marshall of Calis, with fourtéene hundred foot|men, entered the French pale: and finding not mon|sieur de Foiat for whome they sought, they went to Whitsand baie, set the towne on fire, and assaulting the church, into which the people were withdrawne, wan it, and afterwards set fire on the steeple, bicause that diuerse, hauing shut vp themselues therein, through counsell of a priest that was with them, re|fused to yéeld, till the fire caused them to leape downe and so manie of them perished, and the rest were ta|ken prisoners, and led to Calis. About two daies be|fore this, to wit, the three and twentith daie of Iulie, one Thwaits a capteine of an English ship, with six score men, archers and others, tooke land beside Bul|longne, and passing vp into the countrie thrée miles to a towne called Newcastell, forraied all the parts as he went, and in his returne set fire on that towne, and burnt a great part thereof, and came againe to his ship in safetie, notwithstanding fourscore hagbut|ters, and thrée hundred other men of warre of the countrie came foorth, and pursued the Englishmen verie fiercelie: but the Englishmen putting them backe, got to their ship, and lost not a man.

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