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Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this glorious gaine, the Frenchmen besie|ged the towne of Craill vpon Oise, wherof sir Wil|liam Chamberlaine was capteine, the which with fiue hundred Englishmen issued out of the towne, and after long fight, discomfited his enimies, & slue two hundred, and tooke a great number prisoners: the remnant not liking the market, departed to Campaigne, and other townes adioining. During which season, twelue burgesses of the towne of Gi|sours sold it for monie vnto Poiton de Xantrailes. But he had not the castell deliuered, & therefore with all his power he besieged the same; whereof the lord Talbot being aduertised, sent for the lord Scales, and they both with eightéene hundred men rescued the castell, tooke the towne, and discomfited their eni|mies, and slue of them aboue foure hundred persons.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Now according to the old saieng (when the steed is stolen shut the stable doore) the duke of Yorke appoin|ted at the last parlement to be regent of France (af|ter that Paris, Saint Denis, Saint Germans in Laie, and diuerse other townes in France were ta|ken and betraied for lacke of conuenient succours) was sent ouer into Normandie with eight thousand men, and in his companie, the earles of Salisburie,The duke sẽt into France too late. and Suffolke, and the lord Fawconbridge, and di|uerse other valiant capteins. When he was landed, the earle of Salisburie besieged the castell of Cham|bois, which shortlie was to him rendered. Then the duke remooued to Rone, where he set good orders, and did great iustice to the countrie; wherefore the Nor|mans in their chronicles highlie extoll him for that point. Howbeit they saie, that he gat by long siege the towne and abbeie of Fecampe, and did none o|ther notable act, during the time of his rule and go|uernment.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this fourtéenth yeare, the duke of Burgognie determined by the aduise of his councell, to attempt the winning of Calis. The prouision was woonde|rous great which was made for the atchiuing of this enterprise: whereof sir Iohn Ratcliffe,The duke of Burgonie pre+pareth an ar|mie against Calis. deputie of the towne of Calis, hauing perfect intelligence, ad|uertised king Henrie, and his councell, who inconti|nentlie sent thither the earle of Mortaigne, sonne to the duke of Summerset, and the lord Camois, with fifteene hundred men, and great foison of vittels, that issued out of Calis, and came before Grauelin, where they were incountered with a great number of Fle|mings, who were shortlie discomfited, foure hundred of them slaine, and six score taken prisoners. Within two daies after, the Englishmen draue by fine force the lords of Warren and Bado to the barriers of Ard, and discomfited their whole companie, to the number of fiftéene hundred, slue seauen valiant cap|teins, and tooke manie gentlemen prisoners.

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