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Wherein the cause was so sincerelie canuassed a|mong them, that afterward, on the eight of Iulie 1456, a quite contrarie sentence was there declared: of effect, that this Ione (forsooth) was a damsell di|uine, no fault in the Dolphin for his counsell and wit|cherie practises with hir; the processe, iudgement, and condemnation against hir all wrong and iniurious. And for iustification and remembrance aswell of hir innocencie in life and death, as also of the sinceritie of their later sentence, a new crosse in that old mar|ket to be reared. In this tale of Tillets is she further likened to Debora, Iahell, and Iudith, and vnto Ro|mane Clelia compared by Polydor, that shames not somewhat also to carpe at hir iudgment, Li. 23. in vita H. 6. and much pi|tieth hir paine. But what puritie or regard of deuo|tion or conscience is in these writers trow yée, who make no consideration of hir heinous enormities, or else any difference betwéene one stirred vp by mercie diuine, or naturall loue, and a damnable sor|cerer suborned by satan? And thus much of this gen|tle Ione, and of hir good oratours that haue said so well for hir: now iudge as ye list.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the bestowing of this Pusell in sort as yée haue heard, the siege still continued before Campi|egne, and the duke of Bedford sent to the duke of Burgognie lieng at the siege, the earle of Hunting|ton, and sir Iohn Robsert (two iollie gentlemen, of no lesse prudence to parle with the enimie, than puis|sance to incounter them) with a thousand archers (whose actiuitie, I warrant you, stood not then vpon the first triall) which dailie skirmished with them with|in, and made such bastiles & fortresses, that the towne had béene rendred into their hands, but that the duke of Burgognie departed from the siege to go into Brabant, to receiue the possession of that duchie, by the death of his cousin Philip the duke of that coun|trie, as then departed this world.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Anno Reg. 9.Sir Iohn de Lutzenburgh was left by the duke of Burgognie as generall of the siege before Cam|piegne, the which he raised within a shorrt space after, contrarie to the minds of the Englishmen, which were verie desirous to haue lien there till the towne had béene rendered, which if the siege had béene conti|nued but eight daies longer, must needs haue come to passe; by reason that pestilence and famine had al|most consumed all the souldiers within the towne, so that it remained in maner without defense. After the breaking vp of this siege, Iohn duke of Norf|folke tooke againe the townes of Dampmartine, and the Chasse Mongaie, with diuerse other townes. Also the earle of Stafford tooke the towne of Brin countie Robert, and from thence forraged all the countrie to Sens, and after tooke Quesnoie in Brie, Grand Puis, and Rampellon.

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