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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 King Henrie receiuing aduertisement of the vic|torie which his capteines had thus gotten in Eng|land, was maruellous ioifull, and commanded that the prisoners should be brought ouer vnto him into Normandie: which being doone, he went into Aniou, and there fortified the towns and castels of the coun|trie with sure garrisons of men, to resist all sudden inuasions, secret practises, R. Houed. The towne of Uandosme woone. and other attempts of the enimies. On the feast of S. Andrew the apostle, he tooke the towne of Uandosme by force, which Bu|chard de Lauerdin held against him, hauing first ex|pelled his father the earle of Uandosme.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About this season, or rather somewhat before,Sée his letter before in page 86. king Henrie the father (contrarie to the prohibition of the king his sonne) and after the appeale made vnto the pope) gaue not onelie vnto Richard prior of Douer, the archbishoprike of Canturburie; but also to Reig|nold Fitz Ioceline the bishoprike of Bath; to Ri|chard de Worcester archdeacon of Poictiers the bishoprike of Winchester; to Robert Foliot the bi|shoprike of Hereford; to Geffrey Ridell archdeacon of Canturburie he gaue the bishoprike of Elie, and to Iohn de Oxenford the bishoprike of Chichester.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to our purpose. Matt. Paris. The nobles of the realme of England (after the Which was fought on the 17. of October. battell of S. Edmundsburie) with an infinit number of men went against Hugh Bigot in purpose to abate his pride. But whereas they might easilie haue had him at their pleasure, by meanes of such summes of monie as he gaue in bribes, a peace was granted to him till Whitsuntide, within which time hauing gotten togither fourteene thousand Flemings, he passed through Essex, and so getting ouer into Kent, came to Douer, where he tooke ship and transported ouer into France.

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