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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Moreouer, whilest the warres were thus followed in France, the lord Rosse,The lords Rosse & D [...]|cres of the north [...] Scotland [...] spoile the [...] and the lord Dacres of the north, which were appointed to keepe the borders a|gainst Scotland, burnt the towne of Kelsie, and fourescore villages, & ouerthrew eighteene towers of stone, with all their barnekines. Also the king appointed the earle of Shrewesburie to be his lieute|nant generall of the north parts, against the inuasi|on which was intended by the duke of Albanie, which earle directed his letters to all the shires lieng from Trent northward, that all men should be in a readi|nesse. Order was taken by the cardinall, that the true value of all mens substance might be knowne, and he would haue had euerie man sworne to haue vttered the true valuation of that they were woorth, and required a tenth part thereof to bée granted to|wards the kings charges now in his warres,The cardinall will have [...] man [...] to tell [...] is woorth. in like case as the spiritualtie had granted a fourth part, and were content to liue on the other three parts.

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