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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But at length calling to remembrance, that the king of England came before no towne nor for|tresse, from which he would depart before he had brought it vnder his subiection, they offered to come to a parlée, and in the end compounded to render the EEBO page image 571 towne into the kings hands the eight daie of Sep|tember next insuing, and the castell (bicause it was the stronger péece) they couenanted to deliuer the foure and twentith of the same, if in the meane time no rescue came to raise the siege. Thom. Wals. Herevpon when no such releefe could be heard of, at the daies limited, the soldiers of the garrison, & the more part of the towns|men also submitted themselues, and receiued an oth to be true subiects to the king,Duke of Cla|rence saith Rich. Grafton. and so remained still in their roomes. The earle of Worcester was made cap|teine there.