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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Thus they passed forward, and came to Newn|ham bridge, and so to Calis, where was such prouisi|on made for the receiuing of them, as well for lodg|ings, plate, and all such other furniture of houshold, as also of all sorts of viands, wines, and other neces|saries, that it séemed woonderfull: in so much as the proportion assigned to the French lords oftentimes was so abundant, that they refused a great part thereof. The French kings traine was twelue hun|dred horsses, or rather aboue. But there was lodging inough in Calis, not onlie for them, but also for ma|nie other, so that there were aboue eight thousand persons lodged within the towne in that season. The French king comming thither on the fridaie, tarri|ed there till tuesdaie the thirtith of October, and then departed; the king of England accompanieng him out of the towne, till he came to enter into the French ground, and there either tooke leaue of other with right princelie countenance, louing behauiour, and so hartie words, that all men reioised that saw them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Whilest the two kings laie in Calis, the lord An|nas de Montmorancie earle of Beaumont, great master of the French kings house, & Philip de Cha|bot erle of Newblanke, great admerall of France, were admitted into the order of the garter,The great master and admerall of France made knights of the garter. the king calling a chapiter for that purpose, of the knights of that order, at the which the French king was present, and ware a blew mantell, because he was one of the same order. Whilest the king was in the French kings dominion, he had the vpper hand, and likewise had the French king in his dominion. And as the French king paid all the Englishmens charges at Bullongne: so did the king of England at Calis. There rose about the same season such sore weather, storms and rigorous winds, continuing for the more part at north and northwest, that the king staied at Calis for a conuenient wind till tuesdaie the thir|téenth of Nouember at midnight, and then taking his ship, landed at Douer the next daie about fiue of the clocke in the morning.The king re|turneth into England. He marrieth the lady Anne Bullongne. And herewith vpon his returne, he married priuilie the ladie Anne Bul|longne the same daie, being the fourteenth daie of Nouember, and the feast daie of saint Erkenwald; which marriage was kept so secret, that verie few knew it till Easter next insuing, when it was per|ceiued that she was with child.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the king should passe ouer the sea, he con|sidered that the Scots would happilie attempt some|what to the preiudice of his subiects in his absence, which sticked not (he being within the realme) to rob both by sea and land. Wherefore to resist their ma|lice, he appointed sir Arthur Darcie with thrée hun|dred men to go vnto Berwike, to defend the borders from inuasions of the Scots, who shortlie after by the middle marches entred the realme, and came to a place called Fowberie, and stering certeine villa|ges in their waie, returned. The erle of Angus as then was at Berwike as a banished man; and the said sir Arthur determined to reuenge this displea|sure: and therevpon with foure hundred men made a rode into Scotland, and set a village on fire. Then immediatlie assembled togither eight hundred Scots, and began to approch néere to the English men, who perceiuing them, caused their trumpet to blow the retreit, and the erle and twentie with him shewed himselfe on an hill, euen in the face of the Scots, and the trumpet blew at their backs, so that the Scots thought that there had beene two compa|nies, which caused the Scots to flie,Scots dis|comfited by the English|men. and the English|men followed and slew a great number of them, and tooke manie of them prisoners.

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