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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About this season, or rather somewhat before,Sée his letter before in page 86. king Henrie the father (contrarie to the prohibition of the king his sonne) and after the appeale made vnto the pope) gaue not onelie vnto Richard prior of Douer, the archbishoprike of Canturburie; but also to Reig|nold Fitz Ioceline the bishoprike of Bath; to Ri|chard de Worcester archdeacon of Poictiers the bishoprike of Winchester; to Robert Foliot the bi|shoprike of Hereford; to Geffrey Ridell archdeacon of Canturburie he gaue the bishoprike of Elie, and to Iohn de Oxenford the bishoprike of Chichester.

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