Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this meane while, king Philip hauing dailie word how the power of his enimie king Edward did increase by aid of the Easterlings and other na|tions, which were to him alied, and that his men within Calis were brought to such an extreme point, Fabian. that without spéedie rescue they could not long keepe the towne, but must of force render it ouer into the hands of his said enimie, to the great preiudice of all the realme of France, after great deliberation ta|ken vpon this so weightie a matter,The French king assem|bleth an armie Froissard. he commanded euerie man to meet him in their best arraie for the warre, at the feast of Pentecost in the citie of Ami|ens, or in those marches. At the daie and place thus appointed, there came to him Odes duke of Bur|goigne, and the duke of Normandie eldest sonne to the king, the duke of Orleance his yoongest sonne, the duke of Burbon, the earle of Fois, the lord Lois de Sauoie, the lord Iohn of Hemalt, the earle of Armi|nacke, the earle of Forrest, and the earle Ualentino|is, with manie others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 These noble men being thus assembled, they tooke councell which waie they might passe to giue battell to the Englishmen: it was thought the best waie had beene through Flanders, but the Flemings in fauor of the king of England denied,The Flem|ings besiege Aire. not onelie to open their passages to the Frenchmen, but also had leuied an armie of an hundred thousand men of one and o|ther, and laid siege to Aire, and burnt the countrie all about. Ia. Meir. Wherepon there were manie sharpe bicke|rings and sore incoun [...]ers betwixt the Flemings and such Frenchmen as king Philip sent foorth a|gainst them both, now, whilest the French armie laie about A [...]ens, and also before, during all the time that the siege lay at Calis. For all the French towns vpon the frontiers were stuffed with strong garri|sons of souldiers, as Lisle, saint Omers, Arras, Bul|longne, Aire and [...], and those men of war were euer readie vpon occasion to attempt sundrie exploits. After this, when the armie of the Flemings was broken-vp,The French K. cõmeth to|wards Calis. and returned home, or rather diui|ded into parts, and lodged along on the frontiers, the French king with two thousand men one and other came forward, taking his way through the countrie called la Belme, and so by the countrie of Franke|berge, came streight to the hill of Sangate, betwixt Calis and Wisant.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king of England had caused a strong castell to be made betweene the towne of Calis and the sea, to close vp that passage, and had placed therein three score men of armes, and two hundred archers, which kept the hauen in such sort that nothing could come in nor out. Also considering that his enimies could come neither to succour the towne, nor to annoie his host, except either by the downes alongst the sea side, or else aboue by the high waie, he caused all his na|uie to drawe alongst by the coast of the downes, to stop vp that the Frenchmen should not approch that waie. Also the erle of Derbie being come thither out of Guien, was appointed to kéepe Newland bridge,The earle of Derbie. with a great number of men of armes and archers, so that the Frenchmen could not approch anie waie, vnlesse they would haue come through the marishes, which to doo was not possible.