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.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 There was at this battaile with king Iohn, the Erle William Dowglas, and to the number EEBO page image 354 of three thouſand Scots, hauing diuerſe knights and Gentlemen to their Captaynes, of whome there dyed in the ſame battayle Androwe Ste|warde, Robert Gordon, Androwe Holyburton, and Androw Vaus, knightes.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Archimbalde Dowglas ta|ken priſoner.The Erle of Dowglas eſcaped with life and vntaken, but Archimbald Dowglas, ſonne to ſir Iames Dowglas ſlaine in Spaine, was taken priſoner, albeit his taker ſuffred him to depart for a ſmal raunſom, by reaſon yt William Ramſey of Colluthy, who was alſo taken with him, made ſemblant as though the ſame Archimbald Dow|glas had beene ſome poore ſlaue,A ſubtile po|licie. cauſing hym to pull off his bootes, and to do other ſuch drudging ſeruice, as fell not for the eſtate of a man of any eſtimation or honeſtie, to the ende it ſhoulde not be knowne what he was.