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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king held his Christmasse at the siege before Meaux, for he would not giue ouer that siege, al|though his armie was greatlie diminished, by reason of lacke of vittels, extreame cold, foule weather, and other discommodities that bred great store of disea|ses and sickenesse among his people; Titus Liuius. notwithstan|ding, all the helps and means that might be, he deui|sed to remedie the same: so that beside such as died, as well of sickenesse as by the enimies hand, manie returned home into their countries. But yet he ceas|sed not to continue the siege, beating the walles with his ordinance, and casting downe bulworkes and rampiers on ech side the towne, made approches as well by water as land, with mightie engines deui|sed of boords to defend the Englishmen, as they ap|proched the walles, and gaue assaults. The walles al|so were in diuerse places vndermined.