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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the one and twentith of Iulie, the kings ma|iestie passed foorth of Calis, and tooke the field, diui|ding EEBO page image 818 the armie which he had there with him into three battels.The order of the kings ar|mie. The lord Lisle marshall of the host was cap|teine of the fore-ward, and vnder him thrée thousand men: sir Richard Carew with three hundred kept on the right side of the same fore-ward as a wing there|to: and the lord Darcie with other three hundred men was a wing on the left hand. The fore-riders of this battell were the Northumberland men on light geldings. The earle of Essex was lieutenant gene|rall of the speares, and sir Iohn Pechie was vicego|uernour of all the horssemen, and sir Iohn Burdet standard-bearer to the kings spears. An eight hun|dred Almans went on a plumpe by themselues be|fore the kings battell, and the duke of Buckingham with six hundred men was on the kings left hand, e|quall with the Almans, in like maner as sir Edward Poinings was on the right hand, with other six hun|dred men equall with the Almans.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the kings battell, where was the standard of the armes of England borne by sir Henrie Guilford, there were thrée thousand; & the lord of Aburgauenie with eight hundred men was wing on the right hand, and sir William Compton with the retinue of the bishop of Winchester, and of maister This man was after|ward cardi|nall. Woolseie the kings almoner, being in number eight hundred was in manner of a rere-gard. Sir Anthonie Ough|tred and sir Iohn Neuill with the kings speares that followed were foure hundred, and so the whole armie conteined eleuen thousand and three hundred men. The number of the cariages were thirtéene hundred, and the number of them that attended the same were ninetéene hundred men, and all these were rec|koned in the battell: but of good fighting men & soul|diers appointed for the purpose, there were not full nine thousand. In this order the king with his armie marched forward through the confines of his eni|mies to the siege of Terrouan, entring into the French ground the fiue and twentith of Iulie being mondaie. On the morrow after as the armie mar|ched forward, by negligence of the carters that mi|stooke the waie, a great curtall (called the Iohn E|uangelist) was ouerthrowne in a déepe pond of wa|ter and could not quicklie be recouered.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king being aduertised that the Frenchmen approched to fight with him, left the gun (bicause the maister carpenter vndertooke to weie it shortlie out of the water) & set forward, passing on by Tornohan, which he left on his right hand, and a little beyond pit|ched downe his field abiding for his enimies, the which (as he was informed) were not far off.The French armie appro|cheth, & their number. On the morrow after being wednesdaie, the Reliefe of the speares brought word that they had ascried the French armie comming forward in order of battell, to the number of eleuen thousand footmen, and foure thousand horssemen. Capteins of this armie were the lord de la Palice, the lord de Priennes, the duke of Longuile, the earle of S. Paule, the lord of Flo|ringes, the lord of Cleremont, & Richard de la Poole a banished man, son to Iohn duke of Suffolke. They came within two miles of the kings armie, and there the footmen staled, and came no further.

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