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Compare 1577 edition: 1 They tooke in this incounter seuen peeces of ar|tillerie,Artillerie gained. two of brasse and fiue of iron; also the peeces of aduantage of the armour of monsieur de Biez, beside apparell, plate, and furniture in great plentie, as well taken in the field, as also in their campe, where they left their tents standing, & all their proui|sion of vittels wholie vnremoued. The same péeces of armour were sent ouer into England to the king for a witnesse of the good successe that had thus happened to his people in this famous enterprise, in the atchi|uing wherof there were not past halfe a dozen Eng|lishmen slaine, besides those that were hurt, which neither were manie, as vnder halfe a score at the most.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Whilest such things were in dooing about Bul|longne, Iohn Stow. and other places (as before ye haue heard in this twentie and sixt yeare) the ships of the west countrie and other coasts of this realme wasted a|broad on the seas, and tooke to the number of thrée hundred & od French ships, so that the Graie friers church in London was laid full of wine,Great pri [...]es of French goods taken by the Wes|terne ships. the Austine friers and Blacke friers full of herring, and other fish that was taken, as the same should haue béene con|ueied into France. About the same season the king demanded a beneuolence of his subiects spirituall and temporall, towards the maintenance of the warres against the Frenchmen and Scots. ¶On the twelfe of Ianuarie, Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 1030. the lord chancellour, the duke of Suffolke, and other of the kings councell, began to sit at Bainards castell, where they first called before them the maior and aldermen, &c. And bicause Ri|chard Read alderman would not agree to paie as they set him; he was commanded vpon paine to serue the king in his warres of Scotland, who de|parted from London the thrée and twentith of Ia|nuarie.

Also sir William Roch alderman, for words of displeasure taken by the kings councell,Sir William Roch sent to the Fléet. was by them sent to the fléet, where he remained till passion sundaie. On the six and twentith of Ianuarie, there camped on the west side of Bullongne beyond the hauen, an armie of French, to the number of eigh|téene thousand, where they laie ten daies, and the sixt of Februarie were put to flight by the earle of Hertford, and sir Iohn Dudleie lord admerall, then deputie of Bullongne. On the thirteenth of Fe|bruarie,Execution for false ac|cusation. a priest was set on the pillorie in Cheape, and burnt in both chéekes with the letters F. and A. and a paper on his head, wherein was written, For false accusing: which iudgement was giuen by the lord chancellor in the Starre chamber, a notable ex|ample of iustice. Great cause haue I to wish the like to the like accuser, who neuer yet repented, but contrariwise sweareth and forsweareth that he ne|uer did anie such act against his brother.]

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