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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The dead bodie of sir Thomas Finch amongst o|thers was cast on shore, & being knowne, was con|ueied home to his house, and there buried in his pa|rish church. After this mischance, and losse of that woorthie gentleman,Edward Randoll pro|uost marshall. the said Edward Randoll was appointed knight marshall, who ordeined a right suffi|cient personage, capteine Iohn Shute, to be his pro|uost marshall. The fifteenth of Iune, capteine Ri|chard Sanders, and capteine William Saule,A supplie of souldiers ar|riue at New|hauen. with their bands of an hundred souldiers a péece, and cap|teine Drurie, with two hundred, arriued at New|hauen: and the morrow after arriued capteine Ro|berts with another hundred of souldiers. And on the seuenteenth of Iune, being thursdaie,Sir Francis Knolles ar|riuall. sir Fran|cis Knolles, vicechamberleine of the quéenes maie|sties house landed there, béeing sent ouer by hir ma|iestie and hir councell, to view the state of the towne.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 On fridaie the eightéenth of Iune, a sergeant of capteine Blunts band,Execution of souldiors for drawing vpon their cap|teins. and a souldior of capteine Darcies band, were executed in the market place of Newhauen, for drawing their weapons against their capteins, and forsaking their appointed places of warding, and such other lewd parts which they had committed. The fiue and twentith of Iune, procla|mation was made,A proclama|tion forbid|ding resort of souldiors to Newhauen without li|cence. that no souldior of the new fort should resort to the towne of Newhauen, without licence of his capteine, or some of his principall of|ficers, on paine of death: or that anie man should presume to passe the limits of the said new fort, ex|cept vpon occasion of seruice, in companie of his capteine or lieutenant, on like paine. And this order was taken, because diuerse stragling abroad, had béene taken prisoners, and slaine by the enimies, to their owne reproch, & hind [...]rance of the princes ser|uice. The eight and twentith of Iune, the French|men came downe to the village of Lheure, & there verie néere to the fort began to skirmish with the Englishmen. There were of them ten ensignes of footmen, and two hundred horssemen. This skirmish lasted thrée houres,

A long skir|mish without anie great hurt.

Canons pla|ced to beate the towne.

and yet there were not past foure slaine. The night following, they placed fiue ca|nons betwixt the towne and the brickehils, and like|wise they placed other péeces of their artillerie at the foresaid village of Lheure, so that they shot both into the towne and fort.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 The first of Iulie about midnight, they issued foorth of their trenches, and skirmished with the English scouts, droue them vnder the bulworke of saint Addresses, and there perceiuing that the English|men had a priuie sallie out, after a long skirmish they retired. They had meant to haue set the mils belonging to the towne on fire: but they had such plaie made them, that about thrée of the clocke in the morning, they became to be quiet, and left the Eng|lishmen in rest, hauing doone to them little or no hurt at all. The great ordinance on both sides was not idle, whilest this skirmish was in hand. The se|cond EEBO page image 1203 and third of Iulie,Six hundred ou [...] of North|folke, and thrée hundred out of Suffolke. there landed nine hundred souldiors that came foorth of Northfolke and Suf|folke, yellow clokes and blew clokes verie well ap|pointed, hauing to their capteins Ferdinando Lig|gens, Philip Sturleie, Iohn Highfield, and Edward Driuer. Also there came the same time fiftie carpen|ters, sixtéene sawyers, and eight smiths in hir works. Moreouer, on the third daie of Iulie, about ten of the clocke at night, the French gaue a great alarum to the towne, beat in the scouts: but incon|tinentlie issued foorth fiue hundred souldiors out at the sallieng place, vnder the gréene bulworke, and beat the Frenchmen backe into their trenches, and kept them waking all that night.

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