Compare 1577 edition: 1A [...]ime in de|rision of the Englishmen. Long beards, hartlesse, Painted hoods, witlesse,Gaie cotes, gracelesse, Make England thriftlesse.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king when he saw it was but a vaine thing to staie anie longer in communication with the am|bassadors about peace, departed from Yorke with his puissant armie, and getting knowledge how the Scots were closelie lodged in the woods of Stan|op parke, he came and stopped all the passages, so it was thought that he should haue had them at his pleasure, but through treason (as was after reported) of the lord Roger Mortimer, after that the Scots had béene kept within their lodgings for the space of fiftéene daies, till they were almost famished, they did not onelie find a waie out, but about two hundred of them vnder the leading of the lord William Dou|glas, [...]roissart. The lord Dowglas. assailing that part of the English campe where the kings tent stood, in the night season, missed not much of either taking the king or sleieng him: and hauing doone hurt inough otherwise, as in the Sco|tish chronicle is also touched, they followed their com|panie, and with them returned into Scotland with|out impeachment.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 It is said, that Henrie earle of Lancaster, and Iohn the lord Beaumont of Heinault would gladlie haue passed ouer the water of Wire, to haue assal|ted the Scots, but the earle of March through coun|sell of the lord Mortimer, pretending to haue right to the leading of the fore ward, and to the giuing of the first onset, would not suffer them. Howsoeuer it was the king missed his purpose, and right pensiue there|fore, brake vp his field, and returned vnto London. ¶Walter bishop of Canturburie departed this life in Nouember, and then Simon Mepham was ad|uanced to the gouernement of that sée. The lord Beaumont of Heinalt was honorablie rewarded for his paines and trauell,The lord Beaumõt re|turned home. Polydor. and then licenced to re|turne into his countrie, where he had not beene long, but that through his means then (as some write) the marriage was concluded betweene king Edward, and the ladie Philip daughter to William earle of Heinault, and neece to the said lord Beaumont, who had the charge to sée hir brought ouer thither into England about Christmasse: where in the citie of Yorke vpon the eeuen of the Conuersion of saint Paule, being sundaie, Fabian. in the latter end of the first yeare of his reigne, king Edward solemnlie mari|ed hir.