Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Welshmen hauing intelligence that the king was returned home, brake foorth againe as before in|to EEBO page image 214 to the English marshes, and not onelie tooke preies and booties, but went about to destroie with fire and sword all that stood in their way. Howbe it in their re|turne, and as they ranged abroad somewhat vnadui|sedlie, they were intrapped by the souldiers which the king had left there for the defense of the countrie, and put to flight néere the castell of Mountgomerie, with great slaughter & losse of their people.The Welsh|men put to flight. But Leolin no|thing dismaied therwith, assembled a greater power than he had before, and began foorthwith to rob and spoile within the English marshes with paganish extremitie. Which thing when it came to the vnder|standing of the king, he was verie sore displeased, that so meane a man as Leolin was, should put him to so much trouble, therefore he raised a farre greater armie than he had doone at anie time before,The king go|eth against the Welshmen. Matt. Paris. and with the same came to the citie of Hereford.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the meane time Leolin comming néere vnto the said castell of Mountgomerie, by the practise of a traitorous moonke,The English men distressed. trained foorth the English souldi|ers which laie in garrison there, and counterfeiting to flee, till he had laid them vp in bogs and mires with their horsses, so as they could not helpe them|selues he fell vpon them, and so slue and tooke a great number of them euen as he could haue wished. The king aduertised hereof, hasted the faster forward, and comming into those parts, as he passed by an abbeie of the Ciffeaux order (of which house the moonke was that had betraied the Englishmen of Mountgome|rie) he burned a grange that belonged to the same abbeie, and further spoiling the same abbeie it selfe, he had set it on a light fire also, if the abbat therof had not redéemed it with the summe of thrée hundred marks of siluer. After this, he caused Mawds ca|stell to be repaired and fortified,Mawds ca|stell repaired. which the Welshmen in times past had ouerthrowne, and when the worke was finished, he left there a strong garrison of soul|diers to kéepe backe the Welshmen from making their accustomed incursions.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Matth. Paris. Whilest the king was thus occupied in Wales, there was some busines in France: for in the moneth of Iune, the French king with an armie came to in|uade the countrie of Britaine, but earle Henrie with the earle of Chester and the other English capteins found meanes to take and destroie all the cariages and wagons which came with vittels and other proui|sion to serue the French armie.H [...]nrie earle of Britaine, and the earle of Chester distresse the French kings cariages. When the French|men perceiued they could not haue their purpose, by mediation of the archbishop of Reimes, and the earle of Bollongne on the French part, and by consent of the earles of Britaine and Chester on the English part, a peace was concluded, or rather a truce to in|dure for three yeares betwixt the two kings of Eng|land and France.A truce ta|ken. This agréement was made the fift daie of Iulie, and then the earles of Britaine and Chester, with Richard Marshall, came ouer into England, and rode to the king, whom they found at Mawds castell, where he remained till the work [...] was finished, and then in the moneth of October re|turned into England.