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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Braie won by assault.On the further side of the towne there was a bul|worke fortified with ordinance verie stronglie to de|fend the passage ouer the water of Some, which is there diuided into diuerse branches. The French horssemen being withdrawne to the passage, defen|ded it till the footmen were got ouer the bridge, and then they plucked awaie the plankes of the bridge, so that no man should follow: but the Englishmen cast plankes on the bridge and got ouer, in which pas|sing diuerse were drowned: but such diligence and inforcement was vsed, that they all passed both hors|men and footmen. Then was the bulworke fiercelie assaulted, and finallie taken by the Englishmen, with all the ordinance. There was also taken cap|teine Adrian and capteine Utterlieu. The English horssemen followed the Frenchmen, and fiue & tooke manie of them. Sir Robert Ierningham brake a speare on the lord Pontdormie. The lord Leonard Greie did valiantlie that day, which was come from the castell of Bounegard, and was here at the win|ning of Braie, which was taken in maner aboue rehearsed the twentith of October.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 A traine of gunpowder laid.The Frenchmen when they perceiued that they should not be able to defend, had laid a traine of gun|powder to set it on fire, in hope to haue destroied manie of the Englishmen as they should be occupi|ed in gathering the spoile; but by reason that they fol|lowed their enimies, and got ouer the passage, the fire tooke and set the towne on fire yer the English|men returned. Yet much wine was saued which laie in cellars, and stood the Englishmen in good steed. The one and twentith day of October the armie and all the ordinance passed ouer the riuer, and came to a towne called Kappe. All the inhabitants were fled, [...] but they had left good plentie of wine & other riches behind them. The garison that laie at anchor know|ing that the duke was passed the water of Some, rased the towne and castell there called Bounegard, and came to the armie now being lodged at Kappe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The duke sent to them of Roie, requiring to haue the towne deliuered to him,Roie [...] to the [...] Suffolke. which they granted to doo, bicause they had no garison of souldiers within to defend the towne. Thither was sent sir Richard Cornewall, with foure hundred men, which receiued the towne and kept it in good quiet, till the duke came thither with his whole armie. On the fiue and twen|tith daie of October, the duke remooued to a village called Lihome where the souldiers had great pillage.Lihome [...] The next daie they went to Dauenker, and the se|uen and twentith daie they came before the towne of Montdedier, in the which were a thousand foot|men,Montded [...] besieged and fiue hundred horssemen vnder the gouer|nance of monsieur de Roch baron, purposing to de|fend the towne to the vttermost. But after that sir William Skeuington had made batterie from foure of the clocke in the next morning till eight in the same forenoone, with such force that the wals were ouerthrowne and made assaultable,Montd [...]ie [...] yeelded. they with|in yeelded the towne into the dukes hands, with con|dition they might go with bag and baggage.

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