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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Manie enterprises, skirmishes, forreis, and other feats of warre were attempted and put in vre be|twixt the Englishmen of Calis, Guisnes, and other fortresses there in those marches, and the French|men of Bullogne, and other of the garrisons in the frontiers of Picardie, and still sir William Fitz Williams as then capteine of Guisnes, sir Robert Ierningham capteine of Newnam bridge, sir Iohn Wallop, and sir Iohn Gage were those that did to the Frenchmen most damage. Also monsieur de Bees being capteine of Bullogne, did for his part what he could to defend the frontiers there, and to an|noie his enimies. Yet one daie in Maie, sir William Fitz Williams, and sir Robert Ierningham, with seuen hundred men (accounting in that number the Kreekers) went to Bullogne, and there skirmished with the Frenchmen,Christ [...]pher Coo. whilest Christopher Coo a cap|teine of foure English ships tooke land, and fought with them of base Bullogne on the one side, as the Kréekers assailed them on an other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There was a sharpe bickering, and in the end the Frenchmen were driuen backe, and diuerse of them slaine & taken, speciallie by the Kréekers,The krée|kers [...]. that wan the barriers of them, & so when the tide was turned, Christopher Coo with his men withdrew to his ships, & the Kréekers returned to sir William Fitz Willi|ams, who staid for them, and then gathering his men togither by sound of a trumpet, sent foorth such as might fetch the drifts of beasts and cattell in the co [...]n|trie néere adioning, & with the same returned backe in safetie. On the eight of August monsieur de Bées EEBO page image 883 accompanied with diuerse French lords and men of war, to the number of eight hundred footmen, and as manie horssemen, came verie earlie in a morning to a village called Bonnings, within the English pale, and leauing there thrée hundred horssemen in am|bush, road to Kalkewell, and there appointed to tarrie with other thrée hundred men, and the residue of the horssemen and footmen with banner, displaied went foorth and forraied all the countrie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Sir Robert Ierningham also with foure score horssemen issued foorth of Calis, to vnderstand the demeanor of the Frenchmen: but being not able to resist the great number of the Frenchmen, he was chased, and saued himselfe by flight. But this displeasure was shortlie after reuenged by the said Robert, the which comming to Marguison the twelfe of August with three hundred footmen, and thrée score horssemen, he skirmished with the Frenchmen that stood at defense, chased them into the church, and fired them out of the same, so that the Frenchmen leapt out of the church to their destruction, for of thrée hun|dred there were saued but thrée score aliue. On the one and twentith of Maie being Trinitie sundaie,The Scots [...] Eng|land rob the market| [...] going to Berwike [...]. fiue hundred Scotishmen in the morning verie ear|lie, entred by seuerall foords into England, and laie couertlie by the high waies, in purpose to haue sur|prised such market men as came to the faire that day kept at Berwike. They tooke diuerse, but finallie be|ing espied, the alarme rose, and they were fought with right sharplie, who defended themselues with such manhood in drawing backe to their aduantage, that if the yoong lord of Fulberie had not come to the succours of the Englishmen, the Scots had gone a|waie with their bootie. Notwithstanding in the end they were glad to séeke refuge by flight, loosing 200 of their number, which were taken in the chase.

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