Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The Englishmen had the spoile of the earls campe, and being returned to Calis, within fiue daies after there issued foorth about fiue hundred men,Arde assaul|ted by Eng|lishmen. meaning to haue woone the towne of Arde with a sudden as|sault, which they gaue to it in the night time. But sir Manfrid de Bois, and the lord Kigine, did so valiant|lie defend it, that the Englishmen with losse of fortie of their men were constreined to returne vnto Ca [...]lis, after they had burnt the dead bodies in an old house, for that the enimies should not perceiue what losse the Englishmen had susteine [...]. After this, the French king, to auoid perils, laid in garison at Bul|longne, and in other places, the marques of Pount,The marques du Pount. sonne to the duke of Bar, the earle of Dampnie, and sir Iohn Harp [...]dan a knight of great renowme and estimation. The duke of Burg [...]gnie likewise sent a a number of soldiers vnto Graueling, vnder the lea|ding of one Iohn Uandenwall, and to other fortres|ses alongst the coast he sent new supplies, for doubt of the Englishmens inuasions.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king of England in deed hearing of the pre|paration made [...]or warre by the Frenchmen,An armie sent to Calis and to the sea. leuied foure thousand [...] which he sent vnto Calis, and to the sea, of the which 3000 were vnder the conduit of the kings sonne. The lord Thomas of Lancaster, and the earle of Kent, Chr. Fland. Ia. Meir. the two and twentith daisof Maie (as some write) came vpon the coast of Flan|ders, and entring the hauen of Sluis,The English men besieged the castell of Sluis. burnt foure great ships which they found there lieng at anchor. On the fift daie after their comming into that ha|uen they went on land, thinking to haue fought with the duke of Burgognie. But as other write, af|ter they had besieged the castell that stood in the mouth of the hauen, and loosing thrée score of their men, amongst which they name one to beare the title of earle of Penbroke (whom they buried for the time in the church of Mude) fiue daies after their com|ming EEBO page image 529 thither they determined to depart from thence, perceiuing the castell would not easilie be woone, but first they spoiled the countrie about them, and burnt Heis fléet, otherwise called Condekirke, and diuerse other places thereabout.
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they tooke vp the bodie of him whom the Flemish writers call the earle of Penbroke, and got them againe to
the sea, for that they were aduer|tised how the duke of Burgognie meant to besiege Calis. Wherevpon raising
their siege thus from Sluis castell, they returned vnto the defense of the
towne of Calis, so much desired of the French nati|on. As they returned homewards, they met with three
caricks of Genoa, of the which one hauing the wind with hir, meant to haue ouerthrowne the ship wherein the
lord Thomas of Lancaster was aboord: but by the good foresight of the master of the ship that ruled the
sterne, suddenlie turning the same, the vio|lent swaie of that huge vessell comming so vpon them, was
auoided; but yet the caricke stroke off the nose of the English ship, and
brused hir on the side. Then began the fight verie cruell, till the earle of Kent came to the rescue: and so
finallie after a great [...]onflict and bloudie battell betwixt the caricks and English ships,
A great fight by sea. Threé ca|ricks are taken. Townes in Normandie burnt.