Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ Here is to be remembred, that when (as Thomas Walsingham writeth) this cardinall of Piergort was sent from the pope to trauell betwixt the parties for a peace to be had, and that the pope exhorted him verie earnestlie to shew his vttermost diligence and indeuour therein: at his setting foorth to go on that message, the said cardinall (as was said) made this answer: Tho. Wal [...]. A prophesie [...] a prelate. Most blessed father (said he) either we will persuade them to peace and quietnesse, either else shall the verie flintstones crie out of it. But this he spake not of himselfe, as it was supposed but being a prelate in that time, he prophesied what should follow; for when the English archers had bestowed all their arrowes vpon their enimies, they tooke [...]p pebles from the place where they stood, being full of those kind of stones, and approching to their enimies, they threw the same with such violence on them, that ligh|ting against their helmets, armor, and targets, they made a great ringing noise, so that the cardinals prophesie was fulfilled, that he woulde either persuade a peace, or else the stones should crie out thereof.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The worthie prince like a couragious chiefteine, when he saw that he must needs [...]ight,The exte [...]tion of the prince. required his people not to be abashed at the great number of their enimies, sith the victorie did not consist in the multi|tude of men, but where God would send it: and if it fortuned that the iournie might be theirs and his, they should be the most honored people of the world: and if they should die in that righteous quarrell, he had the king his father and also his brethren, in like case as they had freends and kinsmen, that would seeke their reuenge. And therefore he desired them EEBO page image 389 that daie to shew themselues like valiant men of warre: and for his part he trusted in God and saint George, they should see in his person no default These or the like words did this most gentle prince speake, which greatlie comforted all his people.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Noble men with the prince of Wales.There were with him of earles, Warwike, Su [...]|folke, Sal [...]sburie, Stafford; of lords, Cobhain Spenser, Andeley, Berkley, Basset, Warren, de la Wa [...]e, Bradeston, Burwasch, Felton, Mallow, and diuerse other: also sir Iohn Chandois, by whome he was much counselled sir Richard Stafford, sir Ri|chard of Penbruche, and manie other knights and valiant esquires of England. Moreouer, there was of Gascoigne,The capitall de Beuf. the capitall of Buz or Beuf, the lords of Prumes, Burguenrie, Chaumount, de Lespare, Rosen, Monferant, Landuras, the Souldich of Le|strad or Lescard, and other: and of Heinault, sir Eu|stace Daubreticourt, sir Iohn de Guistelles and o|ther strangers.The number of the prince his armie. All the princes companie passed not the number of eight thousand men one and other, of the which (as Iacobus Meire saith) thrée thousand were archers: though Froissard (as I haue rehearsed be|fore) reporteth the number of archers to be more, as in one place six thousand, and in an other place foure thousand.