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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After this the duke of Burgognie accompanied with the earles of Arundell, and Suffolke, and the lord Iohn of Lutzenburgh besieged the towne of Campiegne with a great puissance.Campiegne besieged. This towne was well walled, manned, and vittelled, so that the besie|gers were constreined to cast trenches, and make mines, for otherwise they saw not how to compasse their purpose. In the meane time it happened in the night of the Ascension of our Lord, that Poiton de Saintreiles, Ione la Pusell, and fiue or six hundred men of armes issued out by the bridge toward Mon|dedier, intending to set fire in the tents and lodg|ings of the lord Bawdo de Noielle.

Abr. Fl. ex Gesnero. ¶ In this yeare of our Lord, among diuerse nota|ble men of learning and knowledge, one Richard Fleming, English borne, a doctor of diuinitie profes|sed in Oxford, did flourish: who by the prouidence of God grew in such fauour with this king Henrie the sixt, & the nobles néere & about him, that he was pre|ferred to the bishops see of Lincolne.Richard Fle|ming bishop of Lincolne. This man foun|ded Lincolne college in Oxford, in which vniuersi|tie he had beene a profitable student. Diuerse bookes he wrote (as the vniuersitie librarie dooth beare wit|nesse) whereof these following haue béene séene vnder their names and titles; to wit: A protestation against the Spaniards,The books that he wrote. the Frenchmen, and the Scots, made in the generall councell holden at Sens: one booke of the Etymologie of England; besides diuerse o|ther treatises, as Gesner reporteth Ex bibliotheca Oxo|nij, aforesaid.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 At the verie same time that Campeigne was be|sieged (as before is said) sir Iohn of Lutzenburgh, with eight other gentlemen, chanced to be néere vnto the lodging of the said lord Bawdo, where they espi|ed the Frenchmen, which began to cut downe tents, ouerthrow pauilions, & kill men in their beds: wher|vpon they with all speed assembled a great number of men, as well English as Burgognions, and cou|ragiouslie set on the Frenchmen, and in the end beat them backe into the towne, so that they fled so fast that one letted another, as they would haue entered. In the chase and pursute was the Pusell taken,Ione the Pu|sell taken. with diuerse other, besides those that were slaine, which were no small number. Diuerse were hurt also on both parts. Among the Englishmen, sir Iohn Mont|gomerie had his arme broken, and sir Iohn Ste|ward was shot into the thigh with a quarell.

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