Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 On the further side of the riuer were lodged the earles of Warren and Huntington, the lords Ne|uill and Ferrers, sir Umfreuile. Gilbert Umfreuile with a well furnished companie of warlike soldiers directlie be|fore the gate called Port de Pont. And to the intent that no aid should passe by the riuer toward the citie, there was a great chaine of iron deuised at Pont Larch, set on piles from the one side of the water to the other: and beside that chaine, there was set vp a new forced bridge sufficient both for cariage and pas|sage, to passe the riuer from one campe to another. The erle of Warwike that had latelie woone Damp|front,The lord Talbot. was sent to besiege Cawdebecke, a towne standing on the riuer side, betweene the sea and the citie of Rone [A memorable fea [...] in seruice néere to that place was doone at that time by a well minded man then noted soone after in writing: W. P. which mat|ter vnable to be better reported than by him that had so well marked it, nor like to be more trulie expressed than by the ancient simplicitie (and yet effectuall) of the selfe same words wherein they were written, therefore thought méetest to haue them rehearsed as they were in order, thus.
14.1. The truth of the said memorable feat as it was reported in writing.
The truth of the said memorable feat as it was reported in writing.
_MEmorandum, that my lord the earle of Warwike did send out my cosin sir Iohn Bromley and my cosin George Umfreuile with an hundred archers, and about two hun|dred soldiers a strett,A conflict néere to Caw|debecke. to keepe at a little ca|stell called the Stroo neere to Cawdebeke where they wearen met with aboue eight hundred Frenchmen & the fraie betweene them long yfought, and the Englishmen in great dread and perill: till at length by the might of God and saint George, the feeld did fall to our Englishmen, & the French|men wearen put to flizt, and thear wearen yslaine aboue two hundred Frenchmen, and as manie ytaken prisoners, and their capteine who was ycalled the lord of Estri|sles was thear also yslaine,The L. of E|strisles slaine. and thear wea|ren yslaine of our Englishmen my said co|sin George Umfreuile and about twentie mo: on whose solles Iesus haue mercie,George Um|freuile slaine. and thear wearen hurt in the face my said cosin sir Iohn Bromley & my cosin Wal|ter Audeley sore wounded and maimed in the right arme of his bodie,Walter Aude|ley sore woũ|ded. he then being but of the age of eighteene yeares. But thankes be giuen to the blessed Trinitee, thear wearen manie noble victories ywoon by the said noble erle of Warwike and his folke, as in his officiall booke (written by Maister Iohn le Tucke then present with the said noble earle) is amplie recorded. My said cosin Walter Audeley died at War|wike the seauenteenth daie of Iulie And this sir Iohn Brom|ley departed from this life the fourth day of Sept. 1419. which w [...]s in anno reg. 7. as by the office takẽ after his death remain|ing of record in ye castell of Chester dooth manifestlie appeare. anno Domini one thousand foure hundred and twentie, and was buried at Acton in Che|shire, neere the bodie of my said cosin sir Iohn Bromley: on whose solles Iesus haue mercie. By me sir Richard Braie, chapleine to my ladie the old countesse of Warwike; Iesus Maria, Amen, Pater noster, Aue Maria.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After this conflict, this towne was so hardlie hand|led with fierce and continuall assaults, that the cap|teins within offered to suffer the English nauie to passe by their towne without impeachment, vp to the citie of Rone. And also if Rone yeelded, they promi|sed to render the towne without delaie. Héerevpon the English nauie, to the number of an hundred sailes, passed by Cawdebecke, and came to Rone, and so besieged it on the water side. There came also to this siege the duke of Glocester, with the earle of Suffolke, and the lord Aburgauennie, which had ta|ken (as before yee haue heard) the towne of Chier|burgh, & lodged before the port of S. Hilarie, néerer to their enimies by fortie rodes than any other per|son of the armie.