Compare 1577 edition: 1 Shortlie after, considering with himselfe that the towne of Meaux in Brie, being replenished with e|nimies, was not to be suffered to remaine in that state, in the middes of his new gotten subiects; he de|termined to take awaie the open scruple that might poison and infect the members, dwelling hard by: wherefore with a great number of earles and barons in his companie, he came to besiege it. This towne was no lesse well vittelled than manned, and no bet|ter manned than fortified; so that the king could nei|ther haue it to him deliuered at his pleasure, nor gaine it by assault, without the great losse of his peo|ple: yet neuerthelesse, he determined not to depart, till he had got it by one meane or other. The riuer of Marne diuided this towne into two parts, so that there was no enterie from the one into the other, but by a bridge, raised vp, and made ouer the riuer, sustei|ned with manie arches. The one part is called the ci|tie, and the other la March, being the strongest and best fortified.The strong towne of Me|aux besieged by the Eng|lishmen. The king first lodged a mile off in a ca|stell, and sent the duke of Excester to begin the siege, which he did, according to his instructions, vpon the sixt of October.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Shortlie after, the king himselfe came, and lodged in the abbeie of Pharon, the duke of Excester in the abbeie de Chage, the earle of March at the greie fri|ers, and the earle of Warwike directlie against that part that is called la March. They within defended themselues right valiantlie, so that the Englishmen were not all at their ease, but specialie through lacke of vittels manie died, and manie fell sicke, by reason whereof, no small number returned home into Eng|land; where in the meane time, on the first of Decem|ber, a parlement was called and holden at West|minster,A parlement called by the duke of Bed|ford, the king being in France. by the duke of Bedford, gouernour of the realme in the kings absence. ¶ In this parlement, a fifteenth was granted to the king towards the main|tenance of the warres, the one moitie to be paid at Candlemasse, and the other at Martinmasse, of such monie as at the time of the grant was currant.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Windsore. The birth of king Henrie the sixt.This yeare at Windsore on the daie of saint Ni|cholas in December, the quéene was deliuered of a sonne named Henrie, whose godfathers were Iohn duke of Bedford, and Henrie bishop of Winchester, and Iaquet, or (as the Frenchmen called hir) Iaque|line of Bauie [...], countesse of Holland was his god|mother. The king being certified hereof, as he laie at siege before Meaux, gaue God thanks, in that it had pleased his diuine prouidence to send him a sonne, which might succeed in his crowne and scepter. But when he heard reported the place of his natiuitie; were it that he warned by some prophesie,King Henrie prophesieth of his sonne. or had some foreknowledge, or else iudged himselfe of his sonnes fortune, he said vnto the lord Fitz Hugh his trustie chamberleine these words;

My lord, I Henrie borne at Monmouth, shall small time reigne, & much get; and Henrie borne at Windsore, shall long reigne, and all loose: but as God will, so be it.