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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 15 of 24: Henrie the sixt, sonne and heire to Henrie the fift.
Snippet: 55 of 493 (1587, Volume 6, p. 596)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After that the duke of Bedford had set all things in good order in England, he tooke leaue of the king, and togither with his wife returned into France, first landing at Calis, where the bishop of Winche|ster (that also passed the seas with him) r [...]ceiued the habit, hat, and dignitie of a cardinall,

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with all cere|monies to it apperteining: which promotion, the late K. right déeplie persing into the vnrestrainable am|bitious mind of the man, that euen from his youth was euer to checke at the highest: and also right well ascerteined with what intollerable pride his head should soone be swollen vnder such a hat: did there|fore all his life long kéepe this prelat backe from that presumptuous estate. But now the king being yoong and the regent his fréend, he obteined his purpose, to his great profit, and the impouerishing of the spiri|tualtie of this realme. For by a bull legantine, which he purchased from Rome, he gathered so much trea|sure, that no man in maner had monie but he: so that he was called the rich cardinall of Winchester.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 15 of 24: Henrie the sixt, sonne and heire to Henrie the fift.
Snippet: 56 of 493 (1587, Volume 6, p. 596)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After that the lord regent was arriued in France, the lord of Rustinian, marshall of Britaine, assem|bled a great companie of the British nation, which fortified and repared the towne of Pontorson: and after, the said marshall, with a thousand men, ente|red into the countrie of Constantine, and comming before the towne of Auranches, was incountered by the Englishmen of that garrison; & after long fight, his people were put to the worse, chased,The lord of Rustinian taken and his people slain [...] and disco [...]|ted. and discom|fited, and he himselfe taken prisoner in the field. The duke of Bedford, hearing that the towne of Pontor|son, situate within two leagues of Mont Saint Michaell, was newlie fortified, and stronglie defen|ded, sent thither the earle of Warwike, accompa|nied with the lord Scales, and other valiant cap|teins and souldiers, to the number of seauen thou|sand men, to besiege the towne; who so inuironed it on euerie side, that no man could steale neither in nor out.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 15 of 24: Henrie the sixt, sonne and heire to Henrie the fift.
Snippet: 57 of 493 (1587, Volume 6, p. 596)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The siege thus long continuing, vittels began to wax scant in the English armie: wherefore the lord Scales, hauing in his companie sir Iohn Harpeleie bailiffe of Constantine, sir William Brearton bai|liffe of Caen, sir Rafe Tesson, sir Iohn Carbonell, and three thousand good men of warre, departed from the siege to get vittels, powder, and other things ne|cessarie for their purpose. And as they were retur|ning with their cariages by the sea coast, néere to Saint Michaels Mount, they suddenlie were in|countered by their enimies, whereof were chéefe, the baron of Coloses, the lord Dausebost, capteine of the said Mount, the lord Mountabon, the lord Montbur|chier, the lord of Chateaugiron, the lord of Tinti|gnat, the lord of Chateaubrian, with six thousand men of warre.

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