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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Titus Liuius. About the same time, to wit, the thrée and twentith of September (as some write) was castell Galiard surrendred to the hands of the duke of Excester, which had beene besieged euer since the last daie of March (as before yée haue heard.) But others write that it held out seauen moneths, and was not deliuered vp till the twentith of December. This castell was not onelie strong by situation, standing vpon the top of a stéepe hill, but also closed with mightie thicke walles, and furnished with men, and all maner of munition and things necessarie. The king appointed the lord Ros capteine of it. After that Gisours and castell Galiard were thus yéelded to the English obeisance, all the other townes and castels thereabout, and in the countrie of Ueulquessin, shortlie after yéelded to the king, as Gourneie, Chaumount, Neaufle, Dan|gu, and other small fortresses. Of Gourneie, was sir Gilbert Umfreuile made capteine; at Neaufle, the earle of Worcester; and at Dangu, Richard Wood|uile. Shortlie after was the castell Daumall yéelded to the earle of Warwike,Normandie brought into y^e kings sub|iection, that had béene lost & deteined a long time frõ the English. to whome it was giuen. And thus was the whole duchie of Normandie (Mont saint Michael onelie excepted) reduced to the possessi|on of the right heire, which had béene wrongfullie de|teined from the kings of England euer since the daies of king Iohn, who lost it about the yeare one thousand two hundred and seauen.