Compare 1577 edition: 1 Fiftéene hundred of the commons of Tournie wan a tower, which the Englishmen had made and kept for the impeachment of the Frenchmens pas|sage by the downes, but that notwithstanding, when the marshals of France had well viewed all the pas|sages and streicts through the which their armie must passe, if they meant to fight with the Englishmen, they well perceiued that they could not come to the Englishmen to giue them battell, without the king would lose his people, wherevpon (as Froissard saith) the French king sent the lord Geffrey de Charnie, the lord Eustace de Ribaumont, Guie de Néele, and the lord de Beauiew vnto the king of England,The request of the French lords to the king of Eng|land. which required him on their maisters behalfe to appoint cer|teine of his councell, as he would likewise appoint certeine of his, which by common consent might ad|uise betweene them an indifferent place for them to trie the battell vpon: wherevnto the king of Eng|land answered,His answer.

That there he was and had béene al|most a whole yeare, which could not be vnknowne to his aduersarie their maister, so that he might haue come sooner if he would: but now, sith he had suffered him there to remaine so long, without offer of bat|tell, he meant not to accomplish his desire, nor to de|part from that, which to his great cost he had brought now at length to that point, that he might easilie win it. Wherefore if the French K. nor his host could not passe those waies which were closed by the Eng|lish power, let them séeke some other passage (said he) if they thinke to come hither.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this meane while came two cardinals frõ pope Clement,Cardinals sẽt to intreat of peace. to treat a peace betwixt the two kings, wherevpon commissioners were appointed, as the dukes of Burgoigne and Burbone, the lord Lewes de Sauoie, and the lord Iohn de Heinault, otherwise called lord Beaumont, on the French part: and the earles of Derbie and Northampton, the lord Regi|nald Cobham, and the lord Walter de Mannie, on the English part. These commissioners and the le|gates (as intreators betwéene the parties) met and communed three daies togither, but agréed not vpon anie conclusion, and so the cardinals departed; and the French king perceiuing he could not haue his purpose, brake vp his host and returned to France,They depart. bidding Calis farewell. After that the French king with his host was once departed from Sangate,The French K. returneth into France. without ministring anie succour to them within the towne, they began to sue for a parlée, which being granted, in the end they were contented to yéeld, and the king granted to receiue them and the towne on these conditions; that six of the cheefe burgesses of the towne should come foorth bareheaded, barefooted,The conditi|ons of the surrender of Calis. and barelegged, and in their shirts, with halters about their necks, with the keies of the towne and castell in EEBO page image 378 their hands, to submit themselues simplie to the kings will, and the residue he was contented to take to mercie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This determinate resolution of king Edward be|ing intimated to the commons of the towne, assem|bled in the market place by the sound of the common bell before the capteine, caused manie a wéeping eie amongst them: but in the end, when it was percei|ued that no other grace would be obteined, six of the most wealthie burgesses of all the towne agreed to hazard their liues for the safegard of the residue, and so according to the prescript order deuised by the K. they went foorth of the gates, and were presented by the lord Walter de Mannie to the king,Six bur|gesses of Ca|lis presented to the king. before whom they knéeled downe, offered to him the keies of the towne, and besought him to haue mercie vpon them. But the king regarding them with a fell counte|nance, commanded streight that their heads should be striken off. And although manie of the noble men did make great intreatance for them, yet would no grace be shewed,The queene obteined their pardon. vntill the quéene being great with child, came and knéeled downe before the king hir husband, and with lamentable cheere & wéeping eies intreated so much for them, that finallie the kings anger was aswaged & his rigor turned to mercie (for

Flectitur iratus vo [...]erogante Deus)