Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the moneth of Iune, the earle of Huntington (as Steward of Guien) with two thousand archers, and foure hundred speares was sent into Gascoigne, as a supplie to the countrie and cõmons of the same: EEBO page image 617 for the king of England and his councell were infor|med, that the earle of Dunois laie in the frontiers of Tholouse secretlie, by rewards and faire promises practising to procure diuerse townes in Guien to be|come French. Wherefore this earle (like a politike warrior) altered not onelie the capteins in euerie towne and citie,A seat of a po|litike capteine & wise coun|cellor. but also remoued the magistrates, and changed the officers from towne to towne, and roome to roome; so that by this meanes, the earle of Dunois at that time lost both trauell and [...]ost.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the same moneth also, sir Richard Wooduile, sir William Chamberleine, sir William Peito, and sir William Storie, with a thousand men, were sent to stuffe the townes in Normandie, which at that time had therof great néed: for the English capteins had small confidence in the Normans, and not too much in some of their own nation. For that harlot briberie, with hir fellow couetousnesse,Two shrewd persuaders. ran so fast abroad with French crownes, that hard was it to remaine vncor|rupted. In this yeare, the Dolphin of France alied with Iohn duke of Alanson, and Iohn duke of Bur|gognie, rebelled against his father king Charles: but in the end, by wise persuasions, and wittie handling of the matter, the knot of that seditious faction was dissolued, and the king with his sonne, and the other confederates openlie and apparantlie pacified. The Englishmen taking aduantage of this domesticall diuision in France, raised an armie, and recouered againe diuerse townes, which had béene surprised from them before, and prepared also to haue recoue|red the citie of Paris, till they hard of the agréement betwixt the father and the sonne, and then they left off that enterprise.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In Nouember of this yeare, there was such a great frost, Anno Reg. 18. and after that so déepe a snow, that all the ground was couered therwith, and all the diches fro|sen. Which wether put the Englishmen in hope to re|couer againe the towne of Ponthoise, by the French king gotten before,Ponthoise re|couered by the English. by corrupting with monie di|uerse burgesses of the towne. Hervpon the English|men clothed all in white, with Iohn lord Clifford their capteine, came in the night to the diches, passed them without danger by reason of the frost, scaled the walles, slue the watch, and tooke the towne, with ma|nie profitable prisoners. ¶After the regaining of this towne, the lord Richard Beauchampe earle of War|wike died in the castell of Rone, from whence con|ueied into England, he was with solemne ceremo|nies buried at his college of Warwike, in a verie faire and sumptuous sepulchre.