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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 11 of 24: Edward the third, who came to the crowne by the resignation of his father Edward the second.
Snippet: 185 of 433 (1587, Volume 6, p. 372)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When the Frenchmen were clearelie ouercome, and those that were left aliue fled and gone, so that the Englishmen heard no more noise of them,The king of England co [...]meth [...] from the [...]. king Ed|ward came downe from the hill (on the which he stood all that day with his helmet still on his head) and go|ing to the prince, imbraced him in his armes, and kis|sed him, saieng;

Faire sonne, God send you good per|seuerance in this your prosperous beginning, you EEBO page image 373 haue noblie acquit your selfe, you are well worthie to haue the gouernance of a realme committed to your hands for your valiant dooings.
The prince inclined himselfe to the earth in honouring his father, as he best could. This done, they thanked God togither with their souldiers for their good aduenture. For so the king commanded, and willed no man to make anie boast of his owne power, but to ascribe all the praise to almightie God for such a noble victorie; séeming héerein to be affected as Dauid was in the foure and fortith psalme; for he also referreth the happie successe of warre, and all victorie, vnto almightie God, and not to the strength of a multitude of men, saieng:
Tu nos ab hoste subtrahis, sternis solo
Georg. Buch. pa|raph. in psal.Infensa nobis agmina.
Non ergo s [...]per iure te cantabimus
Nostrae salutis vindicem?

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 11 of 24: Edward the third, who came to the crowne by the resignation of his father Edward the second.
Snippet: 186 of 433 (1587, Volume 6, p. 373)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ On the sundaie in the morning, there was such a mist, that a man could not see an acres bredth before him. Then by the kings commandeme [...] there depar|ted from the host fiue hundred speares, and two thou|sand archers, to trie if they might heare of anie Frenchmen gathered togither in anie place néere vnto them.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 11 of 24: Edward the third, who came to the crowne by the resignation of his father Edward the second.
Snippet: 187 of 433 (1587, Volume 6, p. 373)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the same morning there were departed out of Abuile and S. Requier in Pontiew, the commons of Roan and Beauuais, with other that knew no|thing of the discomfiture the daie before. These met with the Englishmen, supposing they had beene Frenchmen, and being fiercelie assailed of them, af|ter sore fight, and great slaughter, the Frenchmen were discomfited and fled,Frenchmen slaine the day after the bat| [...]ll. of whome were slaine in the hedges & bushes, more than seuen thousand men. The archbishop of Roan, and the grand prior of France, ignorant also of the discomfiture the day be|fore, & supposing (as they were informed) the French should not haue foughten till that sundaie, were like|wise incountred (as they came thitherward) by the Englishmen, with whome they fought a sore battell, for they were a great number, but yet at length they were not able to susteine the puissant force of the Englishmen,The archb. of Rouen and the lord grand prior of France slaine and so the most part of them were slaine, with the said archbishop and grand prior, and few there were that escaped.

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