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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Frenchmen by experience knowing the Eng|lishmen (so long as they be fresh and lustie) in maner to be inuincible,When the French be i [...]uincible. thought not good to match with them in open battell, till they were somewhat wearied with lieng and lingering abroad in the field. And therefore at the first they sought to wearie them with light skirmishes, appointing their horssemen to giue them alarmes, & some skirmishes; in the which the French|men, by reason of the English archers (which galled both men and horsses) were euer put to the worsse. But behold the mutabilitie of worldlie chances! Whiles this warre was thus set forward, Francis duke of Britaine departed this life,Francis duke [...] Britaine [...]eth. & then the cheefe rulers of Britain, falling at dissention among them|selues, tendered not the defense of their countrie, but rather minded the destruction thereof.