Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Englishmen herewith inflamed, determined either to reuenge the death of their herald, or to die for it, and therewith ordered their battels readie to fight, Thom. Wals. and being not aboue fiue thousand fighting men in all, the bishop placed himselfe amongst the horsse|men,The order of the bishop of Norwich his battell against the Flemings and set the footmen in a battell marshalled wedgewise, broad behind and sharpe before, hauing with them a banner wherein the crosse was beaten. The archers were ranged on either side: the stan|dard of the church went before, the field gules, and two keies siluer, signifieng that they were souldiors of pope Urbane. Moreouer, the bishop had his penon there siluer and azure quarterlie, a freat gold on the azure, a bend gules on the siluer: and bicause he was yoongest of the Spensers, he bare a border gules for a difference. At the approching of the battels togither the trumpets blew vp, and the archers began to shoot against the battell of the Flemings, the which vali|antlie defended themselues, & fought egerlie a long time, but at length they were so galled with arrowes which the archers shot at them a flanke, that they were not able to indure, but were compelled to giue backe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 They were diuided into two battels, a vaward, and a rereward.The Fle|mings dis|comfited by y^e Englishmen. When the vaward began to shrinke, the rereward also brake order, and fled, but the Eng|lishmen pursued them so fast, that they could not es|cape, but were ouertaken and slaine in great num|bers. Iac. Meir. Some saie, there died of them in the battell and chase fiue thousand, some six thousand; and others write, Froissard. that there were nine thousand of them slaine: and Thomas Walsingham affirmeth twelue thou|sand. Manie of them fled into the towne of Dun|kirke for succour, but the Englishmen pursued them so egerlie, that they entered the towne with them, and slue them downe in the streets. The Flemings in diuerse places gathered themselues togither a|gaine as they fled, and shewed countenance of de|fense, but still they were driuen out of order, and brought to confusion. Tho. Walsi. Préests and religious men hardy soldiers The préests and religious men that were with the bishop fought most egerlie, some one of them slaieng sixtéene of the enimies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Iacob. Meir. There died of Englishmen at this battell about foure hundred. The Flemings had no horssemen a|mongst them, nor anie number of gentlemen, for they stood in such dread of English bowes, that they durst not come to anie battell with them, but kéeping themselues out of danger, set the commons of the countrie in hand to trie what they against the Eng|lishmen were able to doo without them. This battell was fought vpon a mondaie being the fifteenth of Maie. The countrie was put in a woonderfull feare by this ouerthrow, so that the townes and fortresses were in great doubt, and some yeelded themselues to the Englishmen, as Berghen and others; some were woone by force, as the castell of Drinchan, and the towne of S. Uenant. To be short, the Englishmen became maisters of all the countrie alongst the sea side, euen from Grauelin to Sluis,The English|mẽ subdue di|uerse towns in Flanders, and spoile the countrie. and got such ri|ches by pillage and spoile, as they could not wish for greater. They preuailed so much, that they wan in maner all the close towns within the bailiffewéekes of Cassell, of Popering, Messines, and Furneis, with the townes of Newport, Blankberke, and di|uerse other.