Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Charles the Dolphin that called himselfe French K. perceiuing fortune to smile thus vpon him, assem|bled a great power, and determined to conquer the citie of Reimes that he might be there sacred, crow|ned, and annointed, according to the custome of his progenitours, that all men might iudge that he was by all lawes and decrees a iust and lawfull king. In his waie thitherwards he besieged the citie of Au|xerre, the citizens whereof compounded with him to yéeld, if they were not rescued within certeine daies. From thence he came before Trois, and after twelue daies siege had that citie deliuered vnto him, by com|position, that the capteine sir Philip Hall (with his people and moueables) might depart in safetie. Af|ter that Trois was yéelded, the communaltie of Chaalons rebelled against sir Iohn Aubemond their capteine, and constreined him to deliuer the towne vpon like composition. In semblable manner did they of Reimes, desiring him to giue safe conduct to all the Englishmen safelie to depart. When Reimes EEBO page image 602 was thus become French, the foresaid Charles the Dolphin in the presence of the dukes of Lorraine and Barre, and of all the noble men of his faction, was sacred there king of France by the name of Charles the seauenth,The French king crowned. with all rites and ceremonies thereto belonging. They of Auxerre, when the terme of their appointment was expired, submitted themselues to him; and so likewise did all the cities and townes ad|ioining.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The duke of Bedford aduertised of all these dooings, assembled his power about him, and hauing togither ten thousand good Englishmen (beside Normans) departed out of Paris in warlike fashion, & passing thorough Brie to Monstreau fault Yonne, sent by his herald Bedford, letters to the French king, si|gnifieng to him; that where he had (contrarie to the finall conclusion accorded betwéene his noble bro|ther K. Henrie the fift, & king Charles the sixt, father to him that was the vsurper) by allurement of a di|uelish witch,Ione taken to be a witch. taken vpon him the name, title, & digni|tie of the king of France; and further had by mur|ther, stealing, craft, and deceitfull meanes, violent|lie gotten, and wrongfullie kept diuerse cities and townes belonging to the king of England his ne|phue; for proofe thereof he was come downe from Paris with his armie, into the countrie of Brie, by dint of sword and stroke of battell to prooue his wri|ting and cause true, willing his enimie to choose the place, and in the same he would giue him battell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The new French king being come from Reimes to Dampmartine, studieng how to compasse them of Paris, was halfe abashed at this message. But yet to set a good countenance on the matter, he answe|red the herald, that he would sooner séeke his maister, than his maister should néed to pursue him. The duke of Bedford hearing this answer, marched toward the king, and pitched his field in a strong place. The French king though at the first he meant to haue a|bidden battell; yet when he vnderstood that the duke was equall to him in number of people, he changed his purpose, and turned with his armie a little out of the waie. The duke of Bedford, perceiuing his faint courage, followed him by the hils and dales, till he came to a town not far from Senlis, where he found the French king and his armie lodged; wherefore he ordered his battels like an expert cheefteine in mar|tiall science, setting the archers before, and himselfe with the noblemen in the maine battell, and put the Normans on both sides for wings. The French king also ordered his battels with the aduise of his capteins.