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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 They entered into the French ground the second of September,The [...] with the English host. being tuesdaie, and tooke their iour|nie toward Heding. By the way there came to them a great power of Burgognians from the ladie Mar|garet, as then regent of Flanders, according to the articles of the league. All the townes, villages, and castels in the countrie thorough the which they mar|ched, were burned, wasted, and destroied on euerie side of their waie: as the towne and castell of Sel|lois, the townes of Brume bridge, Senekerke, Bo|tingham, & Manstier, the towne and castell of Ner|bins, the towne of Dauerne, the castels of Colum|berge, and Rew, the towne and church fortified of Boards, saint Marie de Bois, the towne of Ulaus, the towne and castell of Fringes. On the sixtéenth daie of September, the earle of Surrie with his ar|mie of Englishmen and Burgognians, came before the castell of Heding, and planted his siege before it. The towne was entered,The castell of [...]eding besie|ged by the Englishmen. and part thereof burned by the Burgognians.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Within the castell was capteine monsieur de B [...]ez, hauing prouided for defense of the place all things necessarie; so that the earle of Surrie, and o|ther the capteins of the hoast, perceiuing they could not within anie short time win it, after they had bin before it eleuen daies, they raised their siege, chéeflie bicause they had no great battering peeces to ouer|throw the walles. For the weather was such, and the waies waxed so deepe towards the latter end of that summer, that they could not conueie with them anie great ordinance. From Heding they passed forward, and comming to Dorlens, burned the towne, and rased the castell. From thense they came vnto the towne of Darrier, which they burnt also and spoiled. Thus they burned and spoiled all the waie as they passed.The earle of Surrie retur|neth with his [...] to Ca|lis. But the weather still waxed woorse and woorse, so that manie fell sicke through intemperance there|of, and the Burgognians and Spaniards which were in the armie returned into Flanders.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Then the earle of Surrie, perceiuing that he could no longer keepe the field in that season of the yeare, turned backe towards Calis in good order of battell, and came thither the sixtéenth of October. He would gladlie in déed (before the departure of the Burgognians and Spaniards) haue passed the wa|ter of Somme: but other capteins considering the time of the yeare to be past, and that the whole armie conteined not aboue eightéene thousand men, iudged it more wisedome to returne, and so in the end their opinions were followed. After that the English ar|mie was returned to Calis, the earle of Surrie sent foorth sir William Sands, sir Maurice Berkeleie, sir William Fitz Williams, and with them three thou|sand men, which burned Marguison, the towne of saint Iehans rode, and also Temple towne, with ma|nie villages.

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