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.

W. P. [As before ye haue heard somewhat of this dam|sels strange beginning and proceedings, so sith the ending of all such miraclemongers dooth (for the most part) plainelie decipher the vertue and power that they worke, by hir shall ye be aduertised what at last became of hir; cast your opinions as ye haue cause. Of hir louers (the Frenchmen) reporteth one, how in Campeigne thus besieged, Chroniques de Britaigne. Guillaume de Flauie the capteine hauing sold hir aforehand to the lord of Lut|zenburgh, vnder colour of hasting hir with a band out of the towne towards their king, for him with spéed to come and leauie the siege there, so gotten hir foorth he shut the gates after hir, when anon by the Burgognians set vpon and ouermatcht in the con|flict she was taken: marie yet (all things accounted) to no small maruell how it could come so to passe, had she béene of any deuotion or of true beléefe, and no false miscreant, but all holie as she made it. For earlie that morning she gat hir to saint Iameses church, confessed hir, and receiued hir maker (as the booke termes it) and after setting hir selfe to a piller, manie of the townesmen that with a fiue or six score of their children stood about there to see hir, vnto them (quod she)

Good children and my déere freends, I tell you plaine one hath sold me. I am betraied and short|lie shall be deliuered to death; I beséech you praie to God for me, for I shall neuer haue more power to doo seruice either to the king or to the realme of France againe.