Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 When all things were ordred in Caen as the king could desire, he marched from thence in the same or|der as he had kept before, burning and exiling the countrie. He passed by Eureux & came to Louiers,Louiers. which the Englishmen soone entred and sacked with|out mercie. Then went they foorth and left Roan, and came to Gisors, the towne they burnt,Gisors. but the castell they could not get: they burnt also Uernon,Uernon. and at Poissie they repared the bridge which was broken, and so there they passed ouer the riuer of Saine. The power of the Englishmen increased dailie, Gio. Villani by such numbers as came ouer foorth of England in hope to win by pillage. Also manie gentlemen of Norman|die, and other of the French nation, which loued not nor owght any good will vnto the French king, came to the king of England, offering to serue him, so that there were in his armie foure thousand horsse|men and fiftie thousand footmen with the Normans, and of this number there were thirtie thousand Eng|lish arthers, as Giouan Villani writeth. The Eng|lish marshals ran abroad iust to Paris,S. Germans in Laie. S. Clowd. and burnt S. Germans in Laie: also Mountioy, and S. Clowd, and petie Bullongne by Paris, & the queenes Burge. In the meane time had the French king assembled a mightie armie vpon purpose to fight with the Eng|lishmen. ¶ The lord Godfrey of Harecourt, as he rode foorth with fiue hundred men of armes, and 13 hundred archers, by aduenture incountered with a great number of the burgesses of Amiens on horsse|backe, who were riding by the kings commande|ment to Paris. They were quickelie assailed, and though they defended themselues manfullie for a while, yet at length they were ouercome, and eleuen hundred of them slaine in the field, beside those that were taken. The Englishmen had all their cariage and armour. Thus passed foorth the king of England, and came into Beauuoisin, and lodged neere vnto the citie of Beauuois one night in an abbeie called Mes|sene, and for that after he was dislodged,Beauuois. there were that set fire in the same abbeie, without any com|mandement giuen by him; he caused twentie of them to be hanged that were the first procurers of that fire.Burners executed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 So long the king of England passed forward, that finallie he approched neere to the water of Some, the which was large and deepe, and all the bridges broken and the passages well kept, wherevpon he caused his two marshals with a thousand men of armes, & two thousand archers, to go along the riuer, to the end to find some passage. The marshals assaied diuerse pla|ces, as at Piqueney, and other where, but they could not find any passage vnclosed,Piquency. capteins with men of warre being set to defend the same, in somuch that the marshals returned to the king, and declared what they had seene and found. At the same instant time was the French king come to Amiens,The Fren [...] kings arm [...]. with more than a hundred thousand men, and thought to inclose the king of England, that he should no waie escape, but be constreined to receiue battell in some place greatlie to his disaduantage.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king of England well perceiuing himselfe in danger, remoued from the place where he was in|camped, and marched forward through the countries EEBO page image 371 of Pontiew and Uimew, approching vnto the good towne of Abuile, and at length by one of the priso|ners named Gobin de Grace, he was told where he might passe with his armie ouer the riuer of Some, at a [...] in the same riuer, being hard in the bot|tome, and verie shallow at an eb water. The French king vnderstanding that the K. of England sought to passe the riuer of Some, sent a great baron of Normandie, one sir Godmare du Foy, to defend the passage of the same riuer,Sir God|mare du Foy. with a thousand men of armes, and six thousand on foot with the Genowaies. This sir Godmare had with him also a great number of them of Muxterell and others of the countrie, so that he had in all to the number of twelue thousand men, one and other, and hearing that the king of England was minded to passe at Blanchetake (which was the passage that Gobin Agace had infor|med the king of England of) he came thither.Gobin Agace When the Englishmen approched, he arranged all his com|panie to defend the passage.