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Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the morning, Montioie king at armes and foure other French heralds came to the K. to know the number of prisoners, and to desire buriall for the dead. Before he made them answer (to vnderstand what they would saie) he demanded of them whie they made to him that request, considering that he knew not whether the victorie was his or theirs? When Montioie by true and iust confession had cléered that doubt to the high praise of the king, he desired of Montioie to vnderstand the name of the castell néere adioining: when they had told him that it was called Agincourt, he said, Then shall this conflict be called the battell of Agincourt.The battell of Agincourt. He feasted the French offi|cers of armes that daie, and granted them their re|quest, which busilie sought through the field for such as were slaine. But the Englishmen suffered them not to go alone, for they searched with them, & found manie hurt, but not in ieopardie of their liues, whom they tooke prisoners, and brought them to their tents. When the king of England had well refreshed him|selfe, and his souldiers, that had taken the spoile of such as were slaine, he with his prisoners in good or|der returned to his towne of Calis.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When tidings of this great victorie, was blowne into England, solemne processions and other prai|sings to almightie God with boune-fires and ioifull triumphes, were ordeined in euerie towne, citie, and burrow,The same day that the new maior went to Westminster to receiue his [...]th, the aduer|tisement of this noble vic| [...]orie came to the citie in the morning be|times y [...] men were vp from their beds. Register of [...]a [...]ors. and the maior & citizens of London went the morow after the daie of saint Simon and Iude from the church of saint Paule to the church of saint Peter at Westminster in deuout maner, rendring to God hartie thanks for such fortunate lucke sent to the king and his armie. The same sundaie that the king remooued from the campe at Agincourt to|wards Calis, diuerse Frenchmen came to the field to view againe the dead bodies; and the pezants of the countrie spoiled the carcasses of all such apparell and other things as the Englishmen had left: who tooke nothing but gold and siluer, iewels, rich apparell and costlie armour. But the plowmen and pezants left nothing behind, neither shirt nor clout: so that the bodies laie starke naked vntill wednesdaie. On the which daie diuerse of the noble men were con|ueied into their countries, and the remnant were by Philip earle Charolois (sore lamenting the chance, and mooued with pitie) at his costs & charges buried in a square plot of ground of fifteene hundred yards; in the which he caused to be made thrée pits,Thrée grau [...]s that held fi [...]e thousand and eight hundred corpses. wherein were buried by account fiue thousand and eight hun|dred persons, beside them that were caried awaie by their fréends and seruants, and others, which being wounded died in hospitals and other places.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this their dolorous iournie & pitifull slaugh|ter, diuerse clearks of Paris made manie a lamen|table verse, complaining that the king reigned by will, and that councellors were parciall, affirming that the noble men fled against nature, and that the commons were destroied by their prodigalitie, de|claring also that the cleargie were dumbe, and durst not saie the truth, and that the humble commons du|lie obeied, & yet euer suffered punishment, for which cause by diuine persecution the lesse number vanqui|shed the greater: wherefore they concluded, that all things went out of order, and yet was there no man that studied to bring the vnrulie to frame. It was no maruell though this battell was lamentable to the French nation, for in it were taken and slaine the flower of all the nobilitie of France.

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