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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon the king of England incontinentlie, did not onlie send backe the duke of Burgognie into Picardie,The king o [...] Scots ser|ueth king Henrie. Dreux besie|ged & rendred to the Eng|lishmen. to resist the attempts of sir Iaques de Harecourt, which made war in that countrie for the Dolphin; but also appointed the king of Scots, with the duke of Glocester, to besiege the towne of Dreux. They comming thither about the eighteenth of Iulie, planted siege on euerie side, both of the towne and castell; and what with power of batrie, and other for|cible meanes, so constreined them within, that on the eight daie of August they compounded, that if no suf|ficient rescue came to raise the siege, before the end of twelue daies next insuing, both the towne and castell should be deliuered to the king of Englands vse, so as the soldiers might depart with their goods whither they would, except one Englishman, which was knowen to be amongst them, being fled for treason out of the kings dominions.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the twentith daie of August, which was the day of the appointment, the king of Scots receiued the towne and castell to the behoofe of his souereigne lord the king of England, who (during all the time of the siege) laie at Moraumall. The townesmen that would remaine still in their houses, were sworne to be true subiects to the king; and the other which refu|sed, departed with the souldiers. The Englishman that was excepted, was deliuered according to the couenants; and after executed, as he had deserued. The earle of Worcester was made capteine of Dreux, and sir Henrie Mortimer bailiffe there. This doone, the king hearing that the Dolphin should be at Baugencie, assembling his power, hasted thither|wards: but at his comming into those parties, he found no appearance of enimies in the field, and so he remained there fiftéene daies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In which meane while, the earle of Suffolke was sent foorth to discouer the countrie, and the king wan by assault the towne of Baugencie, and after when vittels began to faile, he marched forward, meaning to pursue the Dolphin.King [...] pursueth the Dolphin But the Dolphin douting the English puissance, conueied all the vittels foorth of those quarters, and retired himselfe to Burges in Berrie, choosing that place as his first refuge, & there|fore determined there to remaine, till fortune tur|ning EEBO page image 581 hir whéele, shuld looke on them with a more fauo|rable countenance,The Dol|phin, why cal|led king of Berrie. hereof in scorne was he com|monlie called king of Berrie. The king of Eng|land followed, till vittels and forrage began [...]ore to faile on all sides, and then returning, passed towards Orleance, taking the castell of Rouge Mont by as|sault.

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