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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon a knight of the earles of Lancaster, called sir Geffrey de Langley,Sir Geffrey Langley. was spéedilie sent in|to Gascoigne with letters from the French king, directed to the conestable, to call him backe againe from his appointed enterprise. And the foresaid chap|leine sir Iohn Lacie was sent also thither with the letters patents of the king of England, directed vn|to his officers there, in forme as is aboue mentioned, whervpon the lord Iohn saint Iohn the king of Eng|lands lieutenant in Gascoigne, vnderstanding the conclusions of the agreement, sold all such prouisions as he had made and brought into the cities, townes, and fortresses for the defense of the same, and depar|ting out of Gascoigne, came towards Paris to re|turne that waie into England.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The French kings mind changed.But behold what followed; suddenlie by the eni|mie of peace was the French kings mind quite changed. And where the king of England was come vnto Canturburie, and kept his Easter there, that immediatlie vpon the receipt of the safe conduct he might transport ouer the seas, and so come to Ami|ens,His vniust dealing. according to the appointment made by the agree|ment; now not onelie the safe conduct was denied, but also the first letters reuocatorie sent vnto the co|nestable to call him backe, by other letters sent after were also made void, and he by the latter letters ap|pointed to kéepe vpon his iournie, so that the conesta|ble entring into Gascoigne with a power, found no resistance, the capteins and officers submitting them selues with the townes and fortresses at his pleasure according to the tenor of the letters patents latelie to them deliuered. All the officers and capteins of the fortresses were brought to Paris as captiues and pledges.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Within a few daies after, the earle of Lancaster required the quéenes, that they would call vpon the king to grant his safe conduct for the king of Eng|land, to reuoke the citation or summons, to re|store the lands taken from him; and to deliuer the pledges: but the French king by the mouths of cer|teine knights sent vnto the earle,The French K. renounceth what he had said. renounced all such couenants as before had béene concluded. The earle of Lancaster then perceiuing that both he and his brother king Edward were mocked thus at the French kings hands, returned into England, and in|formed the king & his councell from point to point of all the matter. Herevpon a parlement being cal|led at Westminster, at the which the king of Scot|land was present, it was decréed by the states, that those lands which were craftilie taken so from the K. should be recouered againe by the sword. And the king herewith sent vnto the French king a frier preacher named Hugh of Manchester,Hugh of M [...]|chester a [...] sent to the French king and a frier minor called William de Gainesbourgh, both being wise and discréet men, and doctours of diuinitie, to declare vnto him, that sith he would not obserue such agréements as had béene concluded betwixt their ancestours; and further had broken such couenants as were now of late agreed vpon betwixt them, by the trauell of his brother Edmund earle of Lanca|ster:The king of England re+nounceth the French king there was no cause whie he ought to account him being king of England, and duke of Guien, as his liegeman, neither did he intend or meane further to be bound vnto him by reason of his homage.

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