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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Frenchmen burned a ship fraught with stone in the hauen of Calis,The French|men meaning to destroy Ca|lis hauen are disapproued by missing the chanell. vpon hope to haue destroied the hauen; but they missed the chanell in bringing in the ship, and so after that the ship was consumed with fire, the stones were recouered out of the water, and brought into Calis, which serued the Englishmen to good vse. Diuerse enterprises were atchiued be|twixt them of the garrisons French and English in those marches. In Iulie the lord Sands treasuror of Calis, with other capteins & souldiors, to the number of twelue hundred, entered into the confines of their enimies, and came before Bullongne, where they had a great skirmish, & put their enimies to the woorse:A rode [...] into the [...] ground. and after marching into the countrie, tooke diuerse chur|ches and other places which the Frenchmen had for|tified, as the church of Odersall, the steeple of Oding|ham, and the castell of Hardingham, and so after they had beene within the enimies countrie almost two nights and two daies, they came backe to Calis, ha|uing not lost past a dozen of their men.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king of England being aduertised that the EEBO page image 879 duke of Albanie would returne shortlie into Scot|land by sea, and bring with him a power of French|men, prepared a fléet of tall and strong ships méet to encounter with the same duke and his power, and ap|pointed for admerall, sir William Fitz Williams, & with him sir Francis Brian, sir Anthonie Poines, sargeant Rot, Iohn Hopton, William Ganston, Anthonie Kneuet, Thomas West, and other, which vsed great diligence to haue met with the said duke of Albanie. And as they laie on the French coast, the foure and twentith of August being sundaie, at sea|uen of the clocke in the morning, they landed in the hauen of Treiport, [...] and assaulted the Frenchmen that were in certeine bulworks on the shore, and did what they could to impeach the Englishmens lan|ding.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But the Englishmen incouraged by their cap|teins, did so valiantlie (although they were but an handfull of men in comparison of their enimies, as seuen hundred to six thousand) that in the end they repelled the Frenchmen, and wan their bulworks of them, and in the same found diuerse peeces of ordi|nance, which they seized. And perceiuing that the Frenchmen fled to the towne of Treiport, they fol|lowed, and shot at them right egerlie, so that manie of the Frenchmen were slaine and wounded, yer they could get to the towne. The Englishmen assaul|ted the gates but could not breake them open: [...] English [...] the [...] of [...]. yet they set fire on the suburbes, & also burnt seuen ships which laie in the hauen. The English capteins per|ceiuing how the people of the countrie came downe in great numbers to the rescue of the towne, caused their men to get togither such spoiles as they might bring awaie in that sudden: and then after they had béene on land fiue houres, with like spéed as they came, they retired backe againe to their ships, not without some losse and damage of men both hurt & slaine; [...] as it often hapneth, when those be not found vnprouided which a man vnaduisedlie assaileth.

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