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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Whilest the king of England wan thus in Nor|mandie, his nauie lost nothing on the sea, but so scow|red the streames, that neither Frenchmen nor Bri|tons durst once appeare; howbeit, on a daie there a|rose such a storme and hideous tempest, that if the earles of March and Huntington had not taken the hauen of Southhampton, the whole nauie had peri|shed; & yet the safegard was strange,A sore [...]. for in the same hauen, two balingers, and two great carickes, la|den with merchandize were drowned, and the broken mast of another caricke was blowen ouer the wall of the towne.A violent tempest of wind. When the furie of this outragious wind and weather was asswaged, and the sea waxed calme, the earles of March and Huntington passed o|uer with all their companie, and landing in Norman|die, they marched through the countrie, destroieng the French villages, and taking preies on each hand, till they came to the king where he then was.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the sixt yeare of king Henries reigne, Anno Reg. [...] he sent the earle of Warwike, and the lord Talbot, to be|siege the strong castell of Dampfront. The duke of Clarence was also sent to besiege and subdue other townes, vnto whome, at one time and other, we find, that these townes vnderwritten were yéelded, where|in he put capteins as followeth.Townes in Normandie yeelded to K. Henrie. In Courton Iohn Aubin, in Barney William Houghton, in Cham|bis Iames Neuill, in Bechelouin the earle Mar|shall, in Harecourt Richard Wooduill esquier, in Fangernon Iohn S. Albon, in Creuener sir Iohn Kirbie to whom it was giuen, in Anuilliers Robert Hornebie, in Bagles sir Iohn Arthur, in Fresnie le vicont sir Robert Brent.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The duke of Glocester the same time, accompani|ed with the earle of March, the lord Greie of Cod|ner, and other, was sent to subdue the townes in the Ile of Constantine, vnto whome these townes here|after mentioned were yeelded, where he appointed capteins as followeth. At Carentine the lord Bo|treux, at Saint Lo Reginald West, at Ualoignes Thomas Burgh, at Pont Done Danie Howell, at the Haie de Pais sir Iohn Aston, at saint Sauieur le vicont sir Iohn Robsert, at Pontorson sir Robert Gargraue, at Hamberie the earle of Suffolke lord of that place by gift, at Briqueuill the said earle al|so by gift, at Auranches sir Philip Hall bailiffe of Alanson, at Uire the lord Matreuers, at S. Iames de Beumeron the same lord.

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