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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Sir Iohn Oldcastell. The seruants of the abbat of S. Albons go about to catch the lord Cobham.The same time, the lord Cobham, sir Iohn Oldca|stell, whilest he shifted from place to place to escape the hands of them, who he knew would be glad to laie hold on him, had conueied himselfe in secret wise into an husbandmans house, not farre from S. Albons, within the precinct of a lordship belonging to the abbat of that towne. The abbats seruants get|ting knowledge hereof, came thither by night, but they missed their purpose, for he was gone; but they caught diuerse of his men, whome they caried streict to prison. The lord Cobham herewith was sore dis|maied, for that some of them that were taken were such as he trusted most, being of counsell in all his deuises. In the same place, were found books written in English, and some of those books in times past had beene trimlie gilt, liuined, and beautified with ima|ges, the heads whereof had béene scraped off, and in the Letanie they had blotted foorth the name of our ladie, and of other saints, till they came to the verse Parce nobis Domine. Diuerse writings were found there also, in derogation of such honour as then was thought due to our ladie. The abbat of saint Albons sent the booke so difigured with scrapings & blottings out, with other such writings as there were found, vnto the king; who sent the booke againe to the arch|bishop, to shew the same in his sermons at Paules crosse in London, to the end that the citizens and o|ther people of the realme might vnderstand the pur|poses of those that then were called Lollards, to bring them further in discredit with the people.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this meane time that the king of England was occupied about Caen, the Frenchmen had neither a|nie sufficient power to resist him, nor were able to as|semble an host togither in their necessitie, by reason of the dissention among themselues: for their king was so simple, that he was spoiled both of treasure and kingdome, so that euerie man spent and wasted he cared not what. Charles the Dolphin being of the age of sixtéene or seauentéene yeares,Commenda|tion of the Dolphin of France. bewailed the ruine and decaie of his countrie, he onlie studied the reléefe of the common-wealth, and deuised how to resist his enimies; but hauing neither men nor mo|nie, was greatlie troubled and disquieted in mind. In conclusion, by the aduise and counsell of the earle of Arminacke the constable of France, he found a meane to get all the treasure & riches which his moo|ther queene Isabell had gotten and hoorded in diuerse secret places: and for the common defense and profit of his countrie he wiselie bestowed it in waging souldiers, and preparing of things necessarie for the warre.