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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Edmund of Langley that was after duke of yorke is borne. Fabian. A iusts and tornie at Dunstable.This yeare, the fift of Iune queene Philip was deliuered of a sonne at the towne of Langley, the which was named Edmund, and surnamed Langley of the place where he was thus borne. Also about the same time was a great iustes kept by king Edward at the towne of Dunstable, with other counterfeited feats of warre, at the request of diuerse yoong lords and gentlemen, whereat both the king and queene were present, with the more part of the lords and la|dies of the land. ¶ The lord Charles de Blois, hauing in the meane time woone Uannes, and other towns, brought his armie backe vnto Hanibout,Hanibout besieged. and eft|soones besieged the same, and the countesse of Mount|fort within it. But for so much as it was well fortifi|ed, and prouided of all things necessarie to defend a siege, the Englishmen being returned thither againe after the ouerthrow of the lord Lewes de Spaine,1342 Anno Reg. 16. it could not be easilie woone. At length, by the labour of certeine lords of Britaine,The countes of Richmond commeth ouer into Englãd. An armie sent into Britaine a truce was taken for a time, during the which, the countesse of Richmond came ouer into England, to commune with king Edward, touching the affaires of Britaine, who ap|pointed sir Robert Dartois earle of Richmond, the earles of Salisburie, Penbroke, and Suffolke, the lords Stafford, Spenser, and Bourchier, with others, to go with hir ouer into Britaine, who made their prouision, so that they might take the sea, to come thither against the time that the truce betwixt the countesse and the lord Charles de Blois should be expired.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Additions to Adam Meri|muth, and Nic. Triue [...] .There be that write, how the lord Walter de Man|nie, tooke a truce indéed with the lord Charles de Blois, to indure till Alhallontide next insuing, but with condition, that if the king of England were contented therewith, then the same to be firme and fullie ratified, otherwise not. Whervpon, when about the beginning of Iulie, the said lord Walter came o|uer into England, bringing with him the lord of Li|ons, and other such prisoners as he had taken, and sig|nified to king Edward what he had concluded tou|ching the truce, the king liked not thereof, and so sent ouer the earles of Northampton and Deuonshire, the lord Stafford,The earle of Northamp|ton and De|uonshire. and sir William de Killesbie his chapleine, and one of his secretaries, with fiue hun|dred men of armes, and a thousand archers, which ta|king ship, on the vigill of th'Assumption of our ladie, sa [...]led foorth towards Britaine. The Frenchmen ther|fore vnderstanding that this succour was comming, appointed the lord Lewes of Spaine, sir Charles Grimaldo, and sir Antonie Doria,Genowaies reteined in the French kings wages. with three thou|sand Genowaies, and a thousand men of armes, im|barked in two and thirtie great ships, to lie on the sea in wait to incounter with the English fleet, as the same should approch towards Britaine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About Easter, the countesse of Mountford with the English armie, appointed to attend hir, tooke the sea at Southampton,The English+men and Ge|nowaies méet and fight on the Seas. and at length met with the lord Lewes of Spaine, and his fléet, where betwixt them was fought a sore battell. Of the Englishmen there were six and fortie vessels, but the lord Lewes of Spaine had nine great ships, and of more force than anie of those which the Englishmen had, and also he had thrée gallies. They began to fight about euen|song time, and continued till that night parted them, and had gone togither againe in the morning, if by a tempest that rose about midnight, the same night, they had not béene scattered in sunder. The Spani|ards and Genowaies tooke awaie with them foure English ships, which being vittellers, were left be|hind. And bicause the same Spaniards and Geno|waies were able to abide the sea better than the Englishmen, by reason of their great ships, they kept the maine sea; but the Englishmen were adui|sed by their mariners to drawe vnto the land, and so they did, arriuing at a little hauen, not farre from Uannes, where comming on land, they streightwaie made towards that citie, and besieged it,Uannes wo [...] not ceassing to assault it both day and night, till at length they wan it, by giuing the assault in two places at once, whilest an other number of them set vpon it in a third place, where was no suspicion, and so entred.

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