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Compare 1577 edition: 1 A traine of gunpowder laid.The Frenchmen when they perceiued that they should not be able to defend, had laid a traine of gun|powder to set it on fire, in hope to haue destroied manie of the Englishmen as they should be occupi|ed in gathering the spoile; but by reason that they fol|lowed their enimies, and got ouer the passage, the fire tooke and set the towne on fire yer the English|men returned. Yet much wine was saued which laie in cellars, and stood the Englishmen in good steed. The one and twentith day of October the armie and all the ordinance passed ouer the riuer, and came to a towne called Kappe. All the inhabitants were fled, [...] but they had left good plentie of wine & other riches behind them. The garison that laie at anchor know|ing that the duke was passed the water of Some, rased the towne and castell there called Bounegard, and came to the armie now being lodged at Kappe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The duke sent to them of Roie, requiring to haue the towne deliuered to him,Roie [...] to the [...] Suffolke. which they granted to doo, bicause they had no garison of souldiers within to defend the towne. Thither was sent sir Richard Cornewall, with foure hundred men, which receiued the towne and kept it in good quiet, till the duke came thither with his whole armie. On the fiue and twen|tith daie of October, the duke remooued to a village called Lihome where the souldiers had great pillage.Lihome [...] The next daie they went to Dauenker, and the se|uen and twentith daie they came before the towne of Montdedier, in the which were a thousand foot|men,Montded [...] besieged and fiue hundred horssemen vnder the gouer|nance of monsieur de Roch baron, purposing to de|fend the towne to the vttermost. But after that sir William Skeuington had made batterie from foure of the clocke in the next morning till eight in the same forenoone, with such force that the wals were ouerthrowne and made assaultable,Montd [...]ie [...] yeelded. they with|in yeelded the towne into the dukes hands, with con|dition they might go with bag and baggage.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Frenchmen made such hast, and were so glad to be gone, that they left much houshold stuffe be|hind them, and great plentie of wine. The English|men also would not suffer them to beare their stan|dards vnspred, but rent the same in péeces: where|with the lord Roch baron was highlie displeased, but he could not amend it. The duke remained in Mont|dedier till the last of October, and then remooued to Roie, where he rested a while with all his armie. On Alhallowes daie,Knights made by the duke of S [...]olke in Franc [...]. the duke of Suffolke in the chiefe church of Roie made knights, the lord Herbert, the lord Powes, Oliuer Manners, Arthur P [...]le, Ri|chard Sandes, Robert Ierningham, Robert Salis|burie, Edmund Bening [...]eld, Richard Corbet, Tho|mas Wentworth, William Storton, Walter M [...]tell, George Warram, Edward Seimor, that was after duke of Summerset. The morow after the armie remooued to a place called Néele.

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