Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The daie following, that is saie the two and twen|tith of Ianuarie,The soldiors [...] Guisnes [...] thense [...] bag and [...]. all the souldiors of the said fortresse of Guisnes, as well English as strangers, with all the rest of the inhabitants, and other (excepted the lord Greie himselfe, maister Arthur Greie his son, sir Henrie Palmer knight, Montdragon capteine of the Spaniards, and other men of charge reserued by the composition) departed with their bag and bag|gage from thense towards Flanders. At whose is|suing foorth, there were estéemed to the number of eight or nine hundred able men for the warre, part English & part Burgognians. Of Spaniards so few were left, as no account is to be made of them, in maner the whole number of them being slaine, and selling their liues right déerelie, according to the or|der of good & hardie souldiors. Thus endeth this siege, wherein for breuities sake we haue left to saie anie thing of the prouisions that the lord Greie made a|gainst the same, of the aduertisements that from time to time he sent to king Philip and quéene Ma|rie, and of their answers, of the sundrie aduentures which they of Guisnes had with the enimie during their being about Calis, and of the great and ma|nie booties that were there taken. Onelie in a word or two will I ad what bands of strangers were within the péece, because thereof as in an other thing or two,What bands of strangers were within the [...]ort. I doo find maister Grafton in his chronicle speake at rouers. First came in Montdragon, with two Spaniards more, verie valiant men, whome did follow within a daie or two, about foure or fiue and thirtie other Spaniards, all shot, of which (as I haue heard) there went not fiue out of the ca|stell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 There came one capteine Desquie a Burgognian, with two hundred souldiors, pikes most. This band was appointed to the Marie bulworke, whose cap|teine being full of the gout, and an impotent man, would not yet be from his charge, but in his bed en|ded his life in the bulworke. And so of this enough. But now after the winning of this towne and ca|stell, the duke aduising well vpon the place, Rich. Grason. and con|sidering that if it should happen to be regained by Englishmen, what a noisome neighbor the same might be to Calis, now being French; and special|lie what impeachment should come thereby for the passage thither from France, considering also the neere standing thereof to the French kings fortresse of Ard: so that to keepe two garrisons so nigh to|gither should be but a double charge, and not onlie néedlesse, but also dangerous for the cause afore re|hearsed. Upon these considerations (as the French|men write) he tooke order for all the great artillerie, vittels and other munition, to be taken foorth, and the castell with all the bulworkes and other fortifi|cations there, with all spéed to be razed and throwne downe, and the stuffe to be caried awaie, and em|ploied in other more necessarie places.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then rested nothing within all the English pale on that side vnconquered,Hammes ca|stell could not be easilie ap|proched vnto, and why. but the little castell or pile called Hammes, which though it were but of small force, made by art and industrie of mans hand, and being altogither of old workemanship without ram|piers or bulworks: yet neuerthelesse, by the natu|rall situation thereof, being on all sides inuironed with fens and marish grounds, it could not easilie be approched vnto, either with great ordinance for the batterie, or else with anie armie to incampe there for a siege: but hauing one streict passage thereto by a narrow causeie, trauersed and cut through in diuerse places, with déepe ditches, alwaies full of water.The lord Ed|ward Dud|leie. Which thing being well foreséene by Edward lord Dudleie then capteine there, hauing as good cause to suspect a siege there, as his neighbors had afore the Frenchmens comming to Guisnes, cau|sed all the bridges of the said causeie being of wood to be broken, to giue thereby the more impeachment to the French, if they should attempt to approch the same, as shortlie after they did, and kept diuerse of the passages.