Compare 1577 edition: 1 While the French king was in Guien,The lord Talbot. the lord Talbot tooke the towne of Couchet, and after mar|ched toward Galliardon, which was besieged by the bastard of Orleance, otherwise called the earle of Dunois: which earle hearing of the lord Talbots approch, raised his siege, and saued himselfe. The Frenchmen a little before this season,The earle of Dunois. An excellent finesse in warre. had taken the towne of Eureux by treason of a fisher. Sir Fran|cis the Arragonois hearing of that chance, apparel|led six strong fellowes, like men of the countrie, with sacks and baskets, as cariers of corne and vittels, and sent them to the castell of Cornill, in the which diuerse Englishmen were kept as prisoners, and he EEBO page image 620 with an ambush of Englishmen laie in a vallie nigh to the fortresse.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The six counterfet husbandmen entered the castell vnsuspected, and streight came to the chamber of the capteine, & laieng hands on him, gaue knowledge to them that laie in ambush to come to their aid. The which suddenlie made foorth, and entered the castell, slue and tooke all the Frenchmen, and set the Eng|lishmen at libertie: which thing doone, they set fire in the castell, and departed to Rone with their bootie and prisoners. This exploit they had not atchiued per|aduenture by force (as happilie they mistrusted) and therefore by subtiltie and deceit sought to accomplish it, which meanes to vse in warre is tollerable, so the same warre be lawfull; though both fraud & bloud|shed otherwise be forbidden euen by the instinct of nature to be put in practise and vse; and that dooth the poet insinuat in a proper sententious verse, saieng:

Fraus absit, vacuas caedis habete manus.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Quid. 1. de art. But now to speake somewhat of the dooings in England in the meane time. Whilest the men of war were thus occupied in martiall feates, and dailie skirmishes, within the realme of France: ye shall vnderstand, that after the cardinall of Winchester, and the duke of Glocester, were (as it séemed) re|conciled either to other, yet the cardinall, and the archbishop of Yorke ceassed not to doo manie things without the consent of the king or of the duke,A new breach betwéene the duke of Glo|cester, and the bishop of Win|chester. being (during the minoritie of the king) gouernor and pro|tector of the realme, whereas the duke (as good cause he had) greatlie offended, therevpon in writing de|clared to the king, wherein the cardinall and the arch|bishop had offended both his maiestie, and the lawes of the realme. This complaint of the duke of Gloce|ster was conteined in foure and twentie articles, which chieflie rested, in that the cardinall had from time to time, through his ambitious desire to sur|mount all others in high degrées of honor and digni|tie, sought to inrich himselfe, to the great and notori|ous hinderance of the king, as in defrauding him not onelie of his treasure, but also in dooing and prac|tising things greatlie preiudiciall to his affaires in France, and namelie by setting at libertie the king of Scots, vpon so easie conditions, as the kings ma|iestie greatlie lost thereby, as in particularities thus followeth.