Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After this the king remooued toward Terrouan, and as he was setting forward, the lord Walon of Flanders came to him with his horssemen, which were alreadie in the kings wages. As the armie pas|sed, by negligence the same daie in a lane was o|uerthrowne one of the kings bombards of iron,The bombard called the red gun ouer|throwne. cal|led the red gun, and there left. The king lodged that night two miles from saint Omers on the north side of the towne. On the thursdaie, being the eight and twentith of Iulie, the maister carpenter with an hun|dred carpenters and labourers, without knowledge of the marshall, went to weie vp the great gun that was in the pond (as ye haue heard) and by force of engins drew it vp, and carted it readie to bring a|waie:The great gun gotten by the French, by the foolish hardinesse of the maister carpenter. but suddenlie there came an eight hundred Frenchmen with speares, crossebowes, and hand|guns, which set on the labourers so fiercelie, that not|withstanding their manfull defense, the most part of them were slaine and the residue taken, and both they and the péece of ordinance conueied to Bullongne.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Frenchmen glad of this chance, assembled a great number to fetch the other gun, which laie yet in the lane. But the lord Berners being capteine of the pioners, and hearing all these things, prepared to re|couer that gun; and so in the morrow ment to fetch it. There were appointed to go backe to see him safe con|ducted, the earle of Essex with his companie of speares, sir Rice ap Thomas with his retinue, and sir Iohn Neuill with the Northumberland men. The Almans also were commanded to retire backe to the succours of them that were gone for the gun. The Al|mans went foorth, till they came within two miles of the place where the gun laie, and further they would not go. The Frenchmen to the number of nine or ten thousand men (as some estéemed) were abroad, and came toward the place where the Englishmen were carting the peece of ordinance.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Northumberland horssemen hauing espied them, gaue knowledge to the residue of the English|men, who prepared themselues to defend their ground against the enimies: and the earle of Essex sent to the lord Walon, willing him with his compa|nie to come to his aid:The lord Wa|lon sendeth the earle of Essex word that he is come to serue the king of England. but the lord Walon sent word againe, that he was come to serue the king of Eng|land more than for one daie, and therefore he wished that all the Englishmen would returne, sith that with the great power of France they were not able to match. This answer was much displeasant to the earle of Essex and the other capteins. In this m [...]ane EEBO page image 819 time the foreriders of the French part were come to the hands of the Englishmen, and so they fell in skir|mish very hotlie: but at length all things considered, and speciallie the small number of the Englishmen, being not aboue seuen hundred horssemen, it was thought best that they should returne and follow the gun, which they had sent forward.