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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The French king, and the duke of Burgognie li|eng at saint Denis, in this season, departed from thence with the quéene and hir daughter, and went to Trois in Champaigne, there to consult of their businesse, hauing left at Paris the earle of S. Paule, and the lord Lisle Adam, with a great puissance to defend the citie. The king of England immediatlie after that Pontoise was woone (as before yee haue heard) came thither in person, as well to giue order for the placing of a sufficient garrison there for de|fense thereof; as to proce [...]d further into the countrie for the getting of other townes and places: and so after he had well prouided for the good gouernment, & safe kéeping thereof, the eighteenth daie of August he departed out of the same with his maine armie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 And bicause they of the garrison that laie in the castell of Uancon Uillers had doone, Titus Liuius. & dailie did di|uerse and sundrie displeasures to the Englishmen, he pight downe his field néere to the same, the better to restraine them from their hostile attempts, and withall sent part of his armie to besiege the castell,The castell of Uancon [...]|lers bes [...]eged and taken. which put them in such feare, that they despairing of all reléefe or succour, and perceiuing they should not be able long to defend the place against the kings puissance, yéelded the place, with all their coine and other goods into the kings hands. Titus Liuius. The soldiers of that garrison, and the inhabitants, at the contempla|tion of a certeine ladie there amongst them, were li|cenced by the king to depart without armor or wea|pon, onelie with their liues saued. Iohn of Burgh that was after basliffe of Gisours, was appointed capteine of this castell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this,Gisours be+sieged & yeel|ded to the Englishm [...]n all the townes and castels within a great circuit offered to yéeld themselues vnto the English obeisance; the strong towne and castell of Gisours onelie excepted, which still held out, & would shew no token of will to yeeld. Héerevpon the king the last of August began to approch the same, but at the first he could not come néere, by reason of the marishes and fennes: but yet such was the diligence of the Englishmen, aduanced by the presence of the king, readie in all places to commend them that were forward in their businesse, and to chastise such as slacked their duetie, that dailie they came neerer and néerer, although the Frenchmen issued foorth dai|lie to encounter them, giuing them manie sharpe skirmishes. For the towne being double walled and [...]ensed with those broad marishes, so incouraged them within, that they thought no force had béene able to haue subdued them.

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