Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There died in this iournie diuerse noble men of this land, as the earles of March and Oxford, Tho. Walsi [...]. The French king goeth o|uer to Calis. the lord Iohn Graie then steward of England, and the lord Geffrie de Saie, with diuerse other. The eight of Iu|lie next insuing, the French king hauing licence to depart, landed at Calis, and was lodged in the castell there, abiding till the king of England came thither, which was not till the ninth day of October next af|ter. On the foure and twentith daie of October, both the kings being in two trauerses and one chappell at Calis, a masse was said before them,The kings receiue a so|lemne oth to sée the p [...]ace performed. and when they should haue kissed the pax, either of them in signe of greater fréendship kissed the other, & there they were solemnelie sworne to mainteine the articles of the same peace; and for more assurance thereof, manie lords of both parts were likewise sworne to main|teine the same articles to the vttermost of their powers. Whilest these kings laie thus at Calis, there was great banketting and chéere made betwixt them.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Also the duke of Normandie came from Bul|longne to Calis, to visit his father,The duke [...] Normandie. and to sée the king of England, in which meane time two of king Ed|wards sonnes were at Bullongne. Finallie, when these two kings had finished all matters in so good order and forme that the same could not be amended nor corrected, and that the French king had deliuered his hostages to the king of England, that is to saie, six dukes, beside earles, lords, and other honorable personages, in all to the number of eight and thirtie: on the morrow after the taking of their oths,The [...] of the Fre [...] hostages. that is to saie on the fiue and twentith daie of October, be|ing sundaie, the French king was freelie deliuered, and the same daie before noone he departed from Ca|lis, and rode to Bullongne. The king of England brought him a mile foreward on his waie, and then tooke leaue of him in most louing maner. The prince EEBO page image 395 attended him to Bullongne, where both he and the duke of Normandie with other were eftsoons sworne to hold and mainteine the foresaid peace without all fraud or colourable deceit: and this doone, the prince returned to Calis. Thus was the French king set at libertie,The French king set at libertie. after he had beene prisoner here in Eng|land the space of foure yeares, and as much as from the nineteenth daie of September, vnto the fiue and twentith of October. When the king of England had finished his businesse at Calis, according to his mind, he returned into England, and came to Lon|don the ninth daie of Nouember.
¶Thus haue yée hard the originall begining, the pro|cesse, and issue of sundrie conflicts and battels, and speciallie of two, one of Iohn the French king vn|luckilie attempted against England; the other of Dauid the Scotish king as vnfortunatlie ended. For both kings were subdued in fight, vanquished, and taken prisoners; with a great number of their noblemen, whereas they were in hope to haue gone awaie with the conquest, and to haue had renowme for their reward. Of which ouerthrow giuen to both these kings, with the clemencie of king Edward (in whose hands though their liues laie to be disposed as he list, yet he was so far from violating the same, that he shewed himselfe a woonderfull fauourer of their estates, and in fine not onelie put them to their reasonable ransoms, but restored them to their roial|ties, from the which their sinister lot had deposed them) Christopher Okland hath left this remembred:
Plantageneta duos reges iam illustris habebatIn Angl. prel. sub Edwardo. 3. Captiuos tenuit comites custodia mitisMultos ambabus claro regionibus ortosSanguine, quos saeuo bello cepere Britanni.Attamen Eduardi viguit clementia regisTanta, & tanta animo virtus innata sedebat,Vt pretio & pacto dimitteret aere redemptosIn patriam ad propriae consanguinitatis amicos.