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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The cause whie he was deteined so long in captiui|tie, was to pleasure thereby the duke of Burgognie: for so long as the duke of Burgognie continued faithfull to the king of England, it was not thought necessarie to suffer the duke of Orleance to be ranso|med, least vpon his deliuerance he would not ceasse to séeke meanes to be reuenged vpon the duke of Burgognie, for the old grudge and displeasure be|twixt their two families, and therefore such ransome was demanded for him as he was neuer able to pay. But after the duke of Burgognie had broken his promise, and was turned to the French part, the councell of the king of England deuised how to de|liuer the duke of Orleance, that thereby they might displeasure the duke of Burgognie. Which thing the duke of Burgognie perceiuing, doubted what might follow if he were deliuered without his knowledge, and therefore to his great cost practised his deliue|rance, paid his ransome, and ioined with him amitie and aliance by mariage of his néece.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This duke being now deliuered, and speaking better English than French,The duke of Orleance de|liuered. after his arriuall in France, repaired to the duke of Burgognie, and ac|cording to his promise and conuention, maried the ladie Marie of Cleue, in the towne of saint Omers, on whome he begat a sonne, which after was French king, and called Lewes the twelfe.Lewes the twelfe. W. P. [Festered sores that rankle inward, as they may perchance be palli|at by sleight of surgerie; so sildome come they to sound cure, but often doo burst out againe to greater paine and perill of patient than euer afore: and so befell it betwéene these two noble houses of Orle|ance and Burgognie, who for all this mariage and plausible peace (that continued a twentie yeares) fell out yet after at square vnattonablie:] their children and cousins, to the great vnquieting of much part of christendome, speciallie in the times of king Fran|cis the first, and his sonne Henrie the second, heires of the house of Orleance. For Iohn earle of Ango|lesme, vncle to this duke Charles, begat Charles, fa|ther to the said king Francis: which earle Iohn had beene as pledge in England for the debt of Lewes duke of Orleance, from the last yeare of king Hen|rie the fourth; till that now his nephue being deliue|red, made shift for monie, and ransomed him also, and EEBO page image 619 at length restored him to his countrie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the beginning of this twentith yeare, Richard duke of Yorke, regent of France, and gouernour of Normandie, determined to inuade the territories of his enimies both by sundrie armies, and in seuerall places, and therevpon without delaie of time he sent the lord of Willoughbie with a great crue of soldi|ers to destroie the countrie of Amiens, and Iohn lord Talbot was appointed to besiege the towne of Diepe; and the regent himselfe accompanied with Edmund duke of Summerset, set forward into the duchie of Aniou. The lord Willoughbie, according to his commission, entred into the countrie of his e|nimies in such wise vpon the sudden, that a great number of people were taken yer they could with|draw into anie place of safegard.

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