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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This enterprise and discomfiture at Lincolne, which was in derision called Lewes his faire,Lewes his faire. chanced the 14 kalends of Iune, being saturdaie in the Whitsun|wéeke. Manie honest matrons of the towne were drowned, as they were got into boates to auoid the danger of their persons, wanting skill how to guide the same boates. The earle of Penbroke the same daie before he receiued any repast, rode backe in post to the king, whom he had left at Stow, and there de|clared the ioifull newes of his good speed, in vanqui|shing of the enimies. On the next morrow, newes came to the king, that they which had kept the castell of Mountsorell were fled out of the same,The K. com|mandeth ye ca|stell of Mount+sorell to be r [...]|ced. and had left it void. Wherevpon immediatlie he sent in com|mandement vnto the shiriffe of Notinghamshire, that going thither in his owne person, he should rui|nat the said castell, & make it plaine with the ground.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Frenchmen which escaped with life from the slaughter of Lincolne, as the Marshall of France, the chateleine of Arras, with others, made towards London with all possible speed, in hope to escape so well as they might: but manie of them, and namelie the footmen were slaine by the countrie people where they passed, and that in great numbers: for the hus|bandmen fell vpon them with clubs and swords, not sparing those whom they got at aduantage. Two hundred knights or men of armes (as we may call them) getting to London,Milites. presented vnto Lewes the sorowfull report of their misaduenture, and were of him not moaned, but blamed and sore rebuked, for that they had fled, and shamefullie left the residue of their companies to be distressed, taken, and slaine by the aduersaries, where if they had manfullie stood to it, they might happilie haue saued their fellowes, and obteined victorie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ The chronicle of Dunstable sheweth in déed that Simon de Peschie and Henrie Braibroc, Chr. Dunsta. perceiuing that Fouks de Brent was entered into the citie, and that they were now assailed both afront, and on the backes, they withdrew, and getting togither 80 French knights or men of armes (if we shall so call them) departed out of the citie, and fléeing through the countrie by Lin and saint Edmundsburie, at length got through to London. How soeuer they were welcomed of Lewes, certeine it is, that the lords that tooke part with king Henrie, were put in no small hope by the atchiuing of this so great a vic|torie, to bring within a short time all the realme to the obedience of king Henrie: and herevpon march|ing foorth into the countrie, put the people in such feare, that they submitted themselues vnto the go|uernment of king Henrie in all places where soeuer they came.

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