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Compare 1577 edition: 1 This gentleman accompanied with his sonne in law the lord Clinton, sir Matthew Browne, sir Iohn Digbie, Iohn Werton, Richard Whethrill, & Shrel|leie esquiers, with other gentlemen and yeomen, to the foresaid number of fiftéene hundred, tooke their ships a mile beside Sandwich, the eightéenth daie of Iulie, and landed at Armew the nineteenth daie, not without some trouble, by reason of a little storme. From thence they were conducted to Barowe, whi|ther the ladie Regent came to welcome them. On the sundaie, being the seuen & twentith of Iulie, they departed to Rossindale, and on thursdaie the last of Iulie they came to Bulduke. And the next daie the whole armie of the Almans, Flemings, and other apperteining to the said ladie met with the English|men without Bulduke, where they set foorth in order; the ladie Regent being there present, which tooke hir leaue of all the captein [...], and departed to Bal|duke.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The armie to the number of ten thousand, beside the fifteene hundred English a [...]chers, passed forward; and the tenth daie of August, being saint Laurence daie, came before a little castle, standing on the high|er side of the Maze, called Brimnoist, belonging to the bastard of Gelderland. The same night,Thom. [...] gouernour of the English ordinance. The sort is woone. Thomas Hert, cheefe gouernour of the ordinance of the Eng|lish part, made his approach; and in the morning, made batterie so, that the assault therevpon being giuen, the fortresse was woone, and the capteine with eightie and od men were slaine, and ninetéene taken; of the which, eleuen were hanged. Iohn Morton, cap|teine of one hundred Englishmen, and one Guiot an esquier of Burgognie, crieng saint George, were the first that entered; at which assault, there was but one Englishman slaine. On thursdaie, the fourteenth of August, the armie feried ouer the riuer of Maze into Gelderland. The next daie, they came to a little towne called Aiske.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The people were fled, but there was a little ca|stell rased, and cast downe, which was newlie built vp on the side of the said riuer. Upon the twentith daie of August, they burnt the foresaid towne of Aiske, and all the countrie about it,The towne of Aiske burned. and came at the last to a towne called Straulle, being verie strong, double diked and walled. Within it were thrée hun|dred & sixtie good men of war, beside the inhabitants. At the first, they shewed good countenance of defense but when they saw their enimies approach néere vnto them with rampiers and trenches, they yeelded by composition, so that the souldiers might depart with a little sticke in their hands. But the townesmen re|sted prisoners, at the will of the prince of Castile. And so on S. Bartholomews day the admerall of Flan|ders, and sir Edward Poinings entred the towne with great triumph.

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