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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 [...]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the eight of Nouember the duke remooued to a place called Mont saint Martine, and from thence was sent the lord Sands to the king in post, to aduertise him in what case the armie stood, and the armie remooued to Permont, and there rested for a time. The Welshmen still murmured that they might not returne home now that the winter was thus farre entered. But there were a sort of men of warre, to the number of a thousand persons vnder the leading of sir Iohn Wallop, [...] which had little wa|ges or none, liuing only on their aduentures, & were therefore called aduenturers, and of some they were EEBO page image 881 called Kréekers, [...]d [...]entures [...] Kreekers. which had as good will to be still a|broad, as the Welshmen had desire to returne home. For these Kréekers by spoiling of townes, taking of prisoners, & other such practises of warlike exploits, made their haunts, and dailie brought to the campe, horsses, mares, vittels, cloth, corne, and other neces|saries, which might not haue béene missed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After great raines and winds which had chanced in that season, [...] and [...] frost. there followed a sore frost, which was so extreame, that manie died for cold, and some lost fingers, some lost toes, and manie lost nailes be|side their fingers, so extreame was the rigour of that frost. ¶The thirteenth daie of Nouember the duke re|mooued to a place within two miles of Boghan ca|stell, and still it froze. The Welshmen in the morning set out a shout, and cried; Home, home. The Kréekers hearing that, cried; Hang, hang. Hereof businesse was like to haue insued, but by policie it was ceas|sed.Boghan [...] assaulted [...] yeelded. Sir Edward Guilford capteine of the horssemen viewing the castell of Boghan, perceiued that the marishes (wherewith it was inuironed) were so hard frozen, that great ordinance might passe ouer the same. Which he signified to the duke, & therewith the duke was contented that he should trie what successe would come of giuing the attempt to win it. So was the ordinance brought ouer the marish ground, wher|of they within being aduertised, immediatlie after thrée shots of canon discharged against them, they yéelded the castell, and all the artillerie within it, of the which there was good store, as thrée score & sixtéene péeces great and small. The kéeping of this castell was deliuered to the senescall of Henegow.

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