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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Frenchmen made such hast, and were so glad to be gone, that they left much houshold stuffe be|hind them, and great plentie of wine. The English|men also would not suffer them to beare their stan|dards vnspred, but rent the same in péeces: where|with the lord Roch baron was highlie displeased, but he could not amend it. The duke remained in Mont|dedier till the last of October, and then remooued to Roie, where he rested a while with all his armie. On Alhallowes daie,Knights made by the duke of S [...]olke in Franc [...]. the duke of Suffolke in the chiefe church of Roie made knights, the lord Herbert, the lord Powes, Oliuer Manners, Arthur P [...]le, Ri|chard Sandes, Robert Ierningham, Robert Salis|burie, Edmund Bening [...]eld, Richard Corbet, Tho|mas Wentworth, William Storton, Walter M [...]tell, George Warram, Edward Seimor, that was after duke of Summerset. The morow after the armie remooued to a place called Néele.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The souldiers being thus led from place to place, began to murmur among themselues & to grudge, bicause of the winter season, being nothing meet for their purpose to kéepe the fields: it grieued them that the Burgognions being prouided of wagons, [...] [...]|mongst [...] English s [...]diers. made shift to send the spoile and pillage home into their countrie being at hand, & they to want such meanes to make the best of those things which they got, so that (as they tooke it) they beat the bush & others had the birds. This grudge was yet by gentle words ceassed for a time. On the sixt daie of Nouember the whole armie came to a village called Ueane, and there rested for that night, and on the morow after they returned againe ouer the water of Some, and came to a place called Beausford. At this passage the duke made Iohn Dudleie and Robert Utreight knights.Iohn [...] and [...] Utreig [...] knight [...]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the eight of Nouember the duke remooued to a place called Mont saint Martine, and from thence was sent the lord Sands to the king in post, to aduertise him in what case the armie stood, and the armie remooued to Permont, and there rested for a time. The Welshmen still murmured that they might not returne home now that the winter was thus farre entered. But there were a sort of men of warre, to the number of a thousand persons vnder the leading of sir Iohn Wallop, [...] which had little wa|ges or none, liuing only on their aduentures, & were therefore called aduenturers, and of some they were EEBO page image 881 called Kréekers, [...]d [...]entures [...] Kreekers. which had as good will to be still a|broad, as the Welshmen had desire to returne home. For these Kréekers by spoiling of townes, taking of prisoners, & other such practises of warlike exploits, made their haunts, and dailie brought to the campe, horsses, mares, vittels, cloth, corne, and other neces|saries, which might not haue béene missed.

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