Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Wherefore he required him either to surceasse the warres which he had in hand against the Britons,A perempto| [...] ambassage [...] of Eng|land into France. or else not to be gréeued though he condescended to the iudgement and determination of the lords both spi|rituall and temporall, and commons of his realme, in taking vpon him the defense of the duke of Bri|taine; promising neuerthelesse that the English ar|mie should onelie take land within the duchie of Bri|taine, and séeke to defend the same against all those that did inuade it, and not to make anie warre with|in the French dominions. This message was no|thing regarded of the French king, in so much that the French armie procéeded in oppressing the Bri|tons, destroieng the countrie, and besieging townes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At length on the seuen and twentith, or (as the chro|nicles of Aniou haue) the eight and twentith daie of Iulie, the duke of Britains armie gaue battell to the French host néere to a towne called saint Aulbin, ha|uing apparelled a thousand and seuen hundred of the Britons in coates with red crosses,The battell of saint Aulbin in Britaine, betweene the duke of Bri|taine and the French king. after the English fashion, to make the Frenchmen beleeue that they had a great number of Englishmen, although they had but foure hundred onelie with the lord Wooduile. The victorie in this battell fell to the Frenchmen, so that almost all the Englishmen were slaine with the lord Wooduile,Lord Wood|u [...]le slaine. beside six thousand Britons. The duke of Orleance and the prince of Orainge were taken prisoners, which were there on the Britons part. The Frenchmen lost twelue hundred men, and amongst other, that valiant Italian capteine Iames Galeot.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 These newes being brought into England, caused king Henrie to make hast in sending foorth his ar|mie,King Henrie sendeth foorth his armie a|gainst the French. and therefore was the lord Brooke, with sir Iohn Cheinie, sir Iohn Middleton, sir Rafe Hilton, sir Ri|chard Corbet, sir Thomas Leighton, sir Richard La|ton, and sir Edmund Cornewall sent ouer into Bri|taine with all conuenient speed, hauing with them an eight thousand men, well armed and furnished in warlike wise, to aid the duke of Britaine against the Frenchmen. These lustie capteins being arriued in Britaine, after they had a little refreshed them, mar|ched forward, and comming neere to their enimies, pitched downe their field, not farre from the French|mens campe.