Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herald, dooest thou bring the suertie of the field,The French kings talke and commu|nication to the emperors am|bassador vtte|red with in|dignation. such one as thy maister, being the assailant, ought to deliuer vnto the defendant, being such a personage as I am? The herald herevnto said: Sir, maie it please you to giue me licence to doo mine office? Then said the king; Giue me the pattent of the field, and saie what thou wilt. The herald beginning his tale, The sacred. Tush (said the king) shew me the pattent of the field, for I hold thy master for so noble a prince, that he hath not sent thée without the suertie of the field, sith I haue demanded it; and thou knowest that thy safe conduct conteineth no lesse but that thou shouldest bring it. The herald answered, that he trusted he had brought that which might content his maiestie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king replied & said: Herald, giue me the pat|tent of the field, giue it me: and if it be sufficient, I will receiue it, and after saie what thou wilt. The he|rald said he had in commandement not to deliuer it, except he might declare that which he had first to saie. The king said: Thy maister can not giue lawes to vs in France. To conclude he told the herald, that he peraduenture might speake things that his mai|ster would not auouch, and that he had not to deale with him, but with his maister.The herald requireth li|bertie to de|part. The herald then re|quired that he might haue licence to depart: which the king granted. And withall the king commanded that it might be registred what had passed in this be|halfe, for a testimonie that the fault rested not in him in that he receiued not the pattent. The herald like|wise for his discharge, required a copie in writing of that which had passed, and the same was granted.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus far haue I ouerpassed the common bounds of my purpose, in speaking so largelie of this mat|ter of combat, bicause of the rarenesse thereof, chan|cing betwixt two so mightie princes, although it came not to the effect of triall. And now to returne to that which followed further vpon the defiance,The empero [...] defied by the kings of Eng|land and France. de|nounced to the emperor by the two kings of armes, Guien and Clarenceaux. Ye shall vnderstand, that the lords and nobilitie, to the number of seuen hun|dred in whose presence it was giuen, tooke it so offen|siuelie, that drawing foorth their swords, they sware that the same should be reuenged: for otherwise they protested, that the infamie would redound to them and their heires for euer. Herewith the warre was proclamed through all Spaine with baners displaied, in which were painted a red sword, with a burning cresset against the French king and his partakers, but not mentioning the king of England by expresse name. But it was recited in the proclamation, that the king of England had menaced and defied the em|perour in the French kings quarell.