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About this season, Arthur brother to Iohn duke of Britaine, commonlie called the earle of Rich|mond, hauing neither profit of the name, nor of the countrie, notwithstanding that king Henrie the fift had created him earle of Yurie in Normandie, and gaue him not onelie a great pension, but also the whole profits of the same towne of Yurie; yet now, bicause that the duke his brother was returned to the part of the Dolphin, he likewise reuolting from the English obeisance, came to the Dolphin to Poi|ctiers, and there offered himselfe to serue him, whom EEBO page image 588 the Dolphin gladlie accepted, reioising more thereof, than if he had gained an hundred thousand crownes: for the Britons within the towne of Yurie, hearing that their maister was ioined with the Dolphin, kept both the towne and castell against the duke of Bedford, furnishing it dailie with new men and munition.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The lord regent aduertised hereof, raised an ar|mie of Englishmen and Normans, to the number of eighteene hundred men of armes, and eight thou|sand archers and other. He had in his companie the earles of Salisburie and Suffolke, the lords Scales, Willoughbie, and Poinings, sir Reginald Graie, sir Iohn Fastolfe, sir Iohn Saluaine, sir Lancelot Lis|le, sir Philip Hall, sir Iohn Pashleie, sir Iohn Greie, sir Thomas Blunt, sir Robert Harling, sir William Oldhall, and manie other, both knights and esquiers, with whom he came before the towne of Yurie, which was well defended, till they within perceiued them|selues in danger, by reason of a mine which the Eng|lishmen made, wherevpon they yeelded the towne. But the capteins of the castell would not presentlie render the place, howbeit they promised to deliuer it, if the same were not rescued at a day assigned by the Dolphin or his power.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Upon this promise, hostages were deliuered into the possession of the lord regent, by whose licence an herald was sent to the Dolphin, to aduertise him of the time determined; who vnderstanding the distresse of his fréends, incontinentlie sent Iohn duke of A|lanson, as his lieutenant generall, the erle Douglas, whome at their setting foorth he made duke of Tou|raine, and the earle Buchquhane as then constable of France, the erls of Aumarle, Uentadoure, Ton|nere, Maulieurier, and Forests, the vicounts of Narbonne, and Touars, the lords of Grauile, Gau|les, Malicorne, Mannie, Ballaie, Fountains, Mont|fort, and manie other noble knights and esquiers, to the number of fifteene thousand Frenchmen & Bri|tons, besides fiue thousand Scots, whome the earle Dowglas had but latelie transported out of Scot|land.