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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Thus at this battell of Chatillon, fought the thir|teenth daie of Iulie in this yeare, ended his life Iohn lord Talbot, and of his progenie the first earle of Shrewesburie: after that he with much fame and most victorie, had valiantlie made warre, and serued his prince and countrie by the space of foure and twentie yeares, in the parties of beyond the seas, whose corps was left on ground, and after was found by his fréends, and conueied to Whitchurch in Shrop|shire where it was interred. After this discomfiture diuerse lords fled to Burdeaux, but the earle of Can|dall, the lords of Montferrant, of Rosaine, & of Dan|gladas entered into the castell of Chatillon, which by the space of ten daies they defended: but in the end despairing of all succours, they rendred the fortresse, and came safe to Burdeaux.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this, the townes of saint Million, Liborne, and all other, which the erle of Shrewesburie had con|quered, rendred themselues to the Frenchmen, Bur|deaux onelie excepted. Which citie, being the last re| [...]uge of the English people, the French king in per|son besieged with all his puissance; and in conclusion constreined both the garrisons and inhabitants to yéeld, so that the Englishmen & Gascoignes might safelie depart into England or into Calis, with all their substance;Burdeaux yeelded againe to ye French. and that the lords de Lesparre, Du|ras, and thirtie others, should neuer (vpon paine of death) be found within anie of the French kings do|minions, which lord de Lesparre being after taken in Gascoigne disguised, was made shorter by the head. When this composition was agréed and sealed, the Englishmen were shortlie transported ouer into England, in the moneth of October this present yeare.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Thus was the duchie of Aquitaine, which had con|tinued in the English possession,Aquitaine l [...]t. from the yeare of our Lord 1155, vnto this present yeare, which is neere hand thrée hundred yeares, by the mariage of Elenor daughter and heire to William duke of Aquitaine, wife to king Henrie the second, finallie reduced and brought againe to the French obedience and serui|tude. Within that onlie duchie be foure archbishops, foure and twentie bishops,The dignitie and state of that duke|dome. fifteene earledomes, two hundred and two baronies, and aboue a thousand cap|teinships and baliffewikes: whereby ye may consi|der, what a losse this was to the realme of England. On the thirteenth daie of October this yeare, was the quéene deliuered at Westminster of a faire sonne,The quéene deliuered of hir son prince Edward. who was christened, and named Edward.

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