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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the duke of Bar heard that his enimies were thus comming towards him, like a hardie cap|teine he raised his siege, and met face to face with the earle and his companie, betwéene whome was a cru|ell and mortall battell. The horssemen of the French side endured long, but in conclusion the English ar|chers so galled their horsses, and so wounded the men, that the Barrois, Almains, and other of duke Reig|ners side were compelled to flee. In the chase was ta|ken EEBO page image 607 the duke of Bar, the bishop of Metz, the lord of of Roquedemaque, sir Euerard of Salseburgh, the Uicont Darcie, and two hundred other, beside three thousand which were slaine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this luckie time also, no lesse occasion of victo|rie was offered to the Englishmen in an other part, if they could haue vsed it with such circumspect wari|nesse as had beene expedient. For Robert lord Wil|loughbie, and Matthew Or rather Goche. Saint Seue|rine besieged. Gough, a valiant Welsh|man, with fifteene hundred Englishmen, laid siege to a towne in Aniou called saint Seuerine. Whereof Charles the French king being aduertised, sent with all speed the lord Ambrose de Lore, with manie noble men to the succours of them within the towne, wher|of the same lord Ambrose was capteine: and there|fore made the more hast to releeue his deputie, and the other being streictlie besieged, but yet staied at the towne of Beaumont, till his whole power might come to him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Englishmen aduertised of this intent of the capteine, came vpon him in the night, and found the Frenchmens watch so out of order, that a thousand men were entered into the campe before they were espied; by reason whereof the Englishmen found small resistance. But when the daie began to appeare, and that the sunne had set foorth his bright beames a|broad, that all things might be seene, the English|men giuen wholie to spoile, followed not their eni|mies in chase, but being contented with their preie and gaine, began to retreit toward the siege againe, which the lord Willoughbie still mainteined with a part of the armie.

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