Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The counte Montgomerie and monsieur Beau|uois had some talke also with the Reingraue, casting out bitter and sharpe words in reproofe of the duke of Guise, and others that were of his faction. The Reingraue comming backe to his armie the same afternoone, forraied all the countrie, and droue awaie the most part of all the cattell that they might meet with: and comming to the church of Hauteuille, where an hundred and fiftie of Montgo|meries band laie, they skirmished with them, and in the end Montgomeries souldiors were forced to re|tire, and abandon the place, leauing it to the eni|mies; and comming awaie, withdrew the same night into Newhauen. The Almans the same euening, diuiding their armie into two parts, the one halfe of them went and lodged at Mondeuille, and the other halfe at Harflue. The morrow after, the Frenchmen that had abandoned the church of Hauteuille the night before, went thither againe,The church of Hauteuille recouered. tooke and kept it against the enimies, in like man|ner as they held it before.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The eleuenth of Nouember,A proclama|tion for good orders to be kept by the souldiors. a proclamation was made in the name of the lord lieutenant, by the of|ficer at armes Blewmantell, as well for good orders to be kept by the souldiors against the French inha|bitants of the towne, & reforming of certeine grée|uances, whereof the French had made complaint: as also for their comming to church to heare com|mon praier and preaching at due times, for the auoi|ding of vnlawfull games, whordome, wicked othes, and other blasphemies; and likewise concerning di|uerse other good orders to be obserued, and disorders to be eschewed, as was thought necessarie to giue warning of, with condigne paines appointed for pu|nishment of such as should transgresse in the same.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On thursdaie the twelfe of Nouember, there went out of the towne of Newhauen towards Har|flue, thrée bands of Frenchmen, conteining about six hundred footmen; and suddenlie they were béeset by the Almans and Frenchmen of the garrison of Harflue: so that the French protestants were dri|uen to take a village called Grauille, where they mainteined the skirmish for the space of two houres, till the lord lieutenant,A skirmish be+fore Harflue hearing of the perill in which they stood, sent foorth with the controllor the num|ber of a thousand footmen, and all the English and Scotish horssemen, and monsieur Beauuois with diuerse French horssemen: who comming before Harflue, fell in skirmish with the enimies, to whose succor there issued foorth of Harflue a great number of the Almans, both horssemen and footmen. But the Englishmen behaued themselues so valiantlie, that they beat them out of the field, and droue them in the end to the verie gates of their towne, with such lionlike courage, as was woonderfull: choosing rather to die in battell (if hap had so cut their cards) in an honest cause, than in their sicke beds: as mo|ued by the poets reason not amisse for a souldior to EEBO page image 1197 remember and resolutelie to rest vpon, to wit:

Absumpti longis animam cruciatibus edunt

Languentes morbis: in bello pulchra paratur

Mors, homo momento pugnans extinguitur horae,

Euolat in tenues laetus citò spiritus auras.