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Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ But here is to be noted, that it séemeth by the re|port of some writers, how the earle of Leicester had not so great an armie there at that battell, as by o|thers account of the number slaine and taken it should appeare he had. For at his departure from his companion in armes Hugh Bigot, he tooke vp|on him to passe through the countrie (as some write) partlie vpon trust that he had of the force and num|ber of his souldiers, being about foure or fiue thou|sand stout and valiant footmen, besides 80 chosen and well appointed horssemen; and partlie in hope that manie of those which were in his aduersaries campe, would rather turne to him than fight against him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 He had a great confidence in the Flemings, who indéed presumed much vpon their owne strength, so that they made account of some great conquest, in such wise, that when they came into any large plaine where they might rest, they would take ech others by the hand, and leading a danse, sing in their countrie language,

[...]atth. Paris.Hop hop Wilkine, hop Wilkine,
England is mine and thine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 King Henrie receiuing aduertisement of the vic|torie which his capteines had thus gotten in Eng|land, was maruellous ioifull, and commanded that the prisoners should be brought ouer vnto him into Normandie: which being doone, he went into Aniou, and there fortified the towns and castels of the coun|trie with sure garrisons of men, to resist all sudden inuasions, secret practises, R. Houed. The towne of Uandosme woone. and other attempts of the enimies. On the feast of S. Andrew the apostle, he tooke the towne of Uandosme by force, which Bu|chard de Lauerdin held against him, hauing first ex|pelled his father the earle of Uandosme.

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