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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The souldiers being thus led from place to place, began to murmur among themselues & to grudge, bicause of the winter season, being nothing meet for their purpose to kéepe the fields: it grieued them that the Burgognions being prouided of wagons, [...] [...]|mongst [...] English s [...]diers. made shift to send the spoile and pillage home into their countrie being at hand, & they to want such meanes to make the best of those things which they got, so that (as they tooke it) they beat the bush & others had the birds. This grudge was yet by gentle words ceassed for a time. On the sixt daie of Nouember the whole armie came to a village called Ueane, and there rested for that night, and on the morow after they returned againe ouer the water of Some, and came to a place called Beausford. At this passage the duke made Iohn Dudleie and Robert Utreight knights.Iohn [...] and [...] Utreig [...] knight [...]

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