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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe things chaunced in the yeare .1355.1355 after our common account, about the feaſt of the Purification of our Ladie, and by reaſon that the Engliſh men did ſo muche hurt at that tyme in thoſe parties by fyre,The burnt Candlemaſſe. it was cleped euer after the burnt Candlemaſſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Shortly after that King Edwarde was re|turned into Englande, William Dowglas of Niddeſdale recouered out of the Engliſhe mens poſſeſſion the landes of Galloway,Galloway re|couered. and the landes of Driſdale, were in ſemblable maner recouered by one Kyrkpatrike.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The ſame yeare on the .xx. day of October,The battaile of Poycters. was the battaile of Poycters fought, where Ed|warde Prince of Wales, otherwiſe named the blacke Prince, ouerthrew the armie of Fraunce,The French king Iohn ta|ken priſoner. and tooke king Iohn priſoner, with his yongeſt ſonne Philip, and a great number of other of the French Nobilitie beſide.

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