Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then the miserable people came before the kings presence, and kneeling on their knées, held vp their hands, and cried; Mercie, mercie: to whome the king gaue certeine comfortable words, & bad them stand vp. All the night following, he caused his armie to kéepe themselues in order of battell within the towne, and on the next morning called all the magi|strats & gouernors of the towne to the senat house, EEBO page image 560 where some for their wilfull stubbornesse were ad|iudged to die, other were sore fined and ransomed. Then he calling togither his souldiers and men of warre,Diuision of spoile. not onelie gaue them great praises and high commendations for their manlie dooings, but also di|stributed to euerie man, according to his desert, the spoile and gaine gotten in the towne, chéeflie bicause at the assault they had shewed good proofe of their manhood and valiant courages.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After that the towne was thus woone, the lord Montainie, capteine of the castell, would not yéeld, but made semblance,The capteine of the castell held out. as though he meant to defend the place, to the vtterance: but after that he was sharplie called vpon by king Henrie, either to yéeld it, or else that he should be assured to haue all mercie and fauour sequestred from him, he tooke better ad|uise, and therevpon being in despaire of reléefe, made this composition, that if he were not rescued of the French power by a certeine daie, he should render the fortresse into the kings hands, with condition, that he and his souldiers should be suffered to depart with all their goods, the habiliments of warre onelie excepted. Herevpon twelue hostages were deliuered to the king, and when the daie came, being the twen|tith of September, Titus Liuius. Caen castell yéelded. they within rendred the castell in|to the kings hands; and thus, both the towne and ca|stell of Caen became English.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Whilest the king was thus occupied about his warres in Normandie, the Scots in great number, entring England, Titus Liuius. The Scots inuade the English bor|ders. wasted the countrie with fire and sword whersoeuer they came. The English lords that were left in trust with the keeping of those parties of the realme, raised the whole power of the countries, so that there came togither the number of an hun|dred thousand men vpon Baw moore, where the gene|rall assemblie was made, Titus Liuius. A great armie to resist the Scots. and as it chanced, the duke of Excester, vncle to the king, who had latelie before mustered a certeine number of men to conueie them ouer to the king as a new supplie to his armie there, was the same time in the north parts on pilgrimage at Bridlington; and hearing of this inuasion made by the Scots, Thom. Walsin. tooke vpon him to be generall of the armie prepared against them, and to giue them bat|tell. Also, the archbishop of Yorke, although he was not able to sit on horssebacke by reason of his great age, caused himselfe to be caried foorth in a charet in that iournie, the better to incourage other. But the Scots hearing that the Englishmen approched to|ward them with such a puissance, withdrew backe in|to their countrie,The Scots recoile home. and durst not abide the bickering; either because they mistrusted an infortunat euent on their side, by reason of the English prowesse; or else for that they had learned by others ouerthrowes to auoid the like, wherein standeth a profitable point of wisedome, as the poet verie sententiouslie saith,

Plautus. Feliciter sapit qui in alieno periculo sapit.