Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Also entring into the woods Nepse and Rutholt, they found a great bootie of sheepe and beasts, and tooke a great sort of prisoners of the countrie people, which were fled into those woods for feare of the eni|mies: but the Englishmen, plaieng the part of good bloudhounds, found them out, & sent all their booties and preie vnto Grauelin and Bruckburge. On the eight daie of Iune they came before the towne of Y|pres, and laid siege thereto,The towne of Ypres besiged. whereat they continued the space of nine wéekes. Thither came to their aid twentie thousand Gauntiners vnder the leading of Francis Akreman, Peter Wood, and Peter Win|ter: so that they within Ypres were streictlie besie|ged, but there were within it in garrison diuerse va|liant knights & capteins,The maner of fortifieng townes in old time. which defended the towne right manfullie: it was fensed with a mightie ram|pire, and a thicke hedge, trimlie plashed and woond with thornes, as the manner of fortifieng townes was in ancient time amongst them in that countrie (as Strabo witnesseth.)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 During the time that the siege laie before Ypres, the Englishmen swarmed abroad in the countrie, for when it was once knowne what good successe the first companie that went ouer had found, there came dailie foorth of England great numbers to be parta|kers of the gaine.Hope of gaine incourageth the soldier. Sir Iohn Philpot that fauoured the bishops iournie, prouided them of vessels for their passage, till the bishop vnderstanding that the more part of those that came thus ouer were vnarmed, and brought nothing with them from home, but onelie swords, bowes and arrowes, did write vnto the said sir Iohn Philpot, that he should suffer none to passe the seas, but such as were men able and likelie to doo seruice: where a great number of those that were come to him, were fit for nothing but to consume vittels, much like the popish shauelings and the Ro|mish rascalitie, of whome the like is spoken thus:

Nos numerus sumus & fruges consumere nati.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The multitude of Englishmen and Gauntiners at this siege was great, so that diuerse skirmishes chan|ced betwixt them, and such as were appointed by the earle to lie in garrisons about in the countrie a|gainst them: but still the victorie abode on the Eng|lish side. Also there was an English préest, one sir Iohn Boring that went to Gaunt with fiue hundred English archers, Ia. Meir. by whose aid Arnold Hans one of the capteins of Gaunt ouercame his enimies in bat|tell, which were laid in a castell neere to the hauen of Allost, and stopped that no vittels might safelie come out of Holland or Zeland to be conueied to Gaunt. The earle of Flanders was not well contented in his mind, Anno Reg. 7. that the Englishmen were thus entred in|to his countrie, and therefore earnestlie laboured to the duke of Burgognie (that had married his daugh|ter, and should be heire of all his dominions and seigniories after his deceasse) to find some remedie in the matter.