Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Polydor. The duke of Lancaster sent ouer into France with an armie.In the moneth of Iulie in this seuen and fourtith yeare of king Edwards reigne, the duke of Lanca|ster was sent ouer vnto Calis with an armie of thir|tie thousand men (as some write) but as Froissard saith, they were but thirteene thousand, as thrée thou|sand men of armes, and ten thousand archers. This voiage had béene in preparing for the space of thrée yeares before. Ia. Meir. Froissard. The duke of Britaine was there with them, and of the English nobilitie, beside the duke of Lancaster that was their generall, there were the earles of Warwike, Stafford and Suffolke, the lord Edward Spenser that was constable of the host,Noble men that went with him in that iournie. the lords Willoughbie, de la Pole, Basset, and diuerse others. Of knights, sir Henrie Percie, sir Lewes Clifford, sir William Beauchampe, the Chanon Ro|bertsart, Walter Hewet, sir Hugh Caluerlie, sir Stephan Cousington, sir Richard Ponchardon, and manie other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When they had made readie their cariages and o|ther things necessarie for such a iournie which they had taken in hand, that is to say, to passe through the realme of France vnto Burdeaux, they set forward, hauing their armie diuided into thrée battels. The earles of Warwike and Suffolke did lead the fore+ward: the two dukes of Lancaster and Britaine, the middle ward or battell, and the rereward was go|uerned by the lord Spenser constable of the host. They passed by S. Omers, by Turrouane, and coa|sted the countrie of Arthois, and passed the water of Some at Corbie.They [...] through the coun [...]rie w [...]+out assauling any townes. They destroied the countries as they went, and marched not past thrée leages a day. They assailed none of the strong townes, nor fortres|ses. For the French king had so stuffed them with notable numbers of men of warre, that they percei|ued they should trauell in vaine about the winning of them. At Roy in Uermandois, they rested them seuen daies, and at their departure set fire on the towne, bicause they could not win the church which was kept against them. From thence they drew to|wards Laon, and so marched forward, passing the ri|uers of Ysare, Marne, Saine, and Yonne. The Frenchmen coasted them, but durst not approch to giue them battell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Neere to Ribaumount, about 80 Englishmen of sir Hugh Caluerlies band were distressed by 120 Frenchmen: & likewise beside Soissons, Fabian. 120 Eng|lish speares, or (as other writers haue) fiftie speares, and twentie archers were vanquished by a Burgo|nian knight called sir Iohn de Uienne, that had with him thrée hundred French speares. Of more hurt by anie incounters I read not that the Englishmen su|steined in this voiage.The French|men meant not to fight with the Englishmen For the Frenchmen kept them aloofe, and meant not to fight with their eni|mies, but onelie to kéepe them from vittels, and fet|ching of forrage abroad, by reason whereof the Eng|lishmen lost manie horsses, and were in déed driuen to great scarsitie of vittels. When they had passed the riuer of Loire, Polydor. and were come into the countrie of Berrie, they vnderstood how the Frenchmen laid themselues in sundrie ambushes to distresse them, if they might espie the aduantage: but the duke of Lan|caster placing his light horssemen, with part of the ar|chers in the fore ward, and in the battell the whole force of his footmen with the men at armes, diuided into wings to couer that battell, wherein he himselfe was,The order of the duke of Lancasters armie in marching. the residue of the horssemen with the rest of the archers he appointed to the rereward, and so causing them to keepe close togither, marched foorth till he came into Poictou, & then in reuenge of the Poicto|uins that had reuolted from the English obeisanc [...], he began a new spoile, killing the people, wasting the countrie, and burning the houses and buildings euerie where as he passed,He cõmeth [...] to Burdeaux Froissard. The archb. of Rauenna [...] from the p [...]p [...] & so finallie about Christ|masse came to Burdeaux.