Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Calis yéelded to the king of England.Thus was the strong towne of Calis yéelded vp into the hands of king Edward, the third of August, in the yeare 1347. The capteine the lord Iohn de Ui|enne, and all the other capteins and men of name were staied as prisoners, and the common soldiers and other meane people of the towne were licenced to depart and void their houses, leauing all their ar|mor and riches behind them. The king would not haue any of the old inhabitants to remaine in the towne, saue onlie a priest, and two other ancient per|sonages, such as best knew the customes, lawes and ordinances of the towne. He appointed to send ouer thither amongst other Englishmen, there to inhabit, 36 burgesses of London,Calis made a colonie of Englishmen. and those of the wealthiest sort, for he meant to people the towne onelie with Englishmen, for the better and more sure defense thereof. The king and quéene were lodged in the ca|stell,The quéene brought to bed in the ca|stell of Calis. Polydor. and continued there, till the queene was deliue|red of a daughter named Margaret.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The cardinals, of whome ye heard before, being come as legats from pope Clement to mooue com|munication of peace, did so much in the matter, that a truce was granted betwixt the realme of England & France, for the terme of twelue moneths, or two yeares (as Froissard saith.) But the English chroni|cle and Iacobus Meir seeme to agree, Caxton. Ia. Meir. A truce. that this truce was taken but for nine moneths, though afterwards the same was proroged. To the which truce all par|ties agreed,Women hard to agrée. Britaine excepted, for the two women there would not be quieted, but still pursued the war the one against the other. After that this truce was accorded, the king with the quéene his wife returned into England, and left as capteine within Calis one sir Amerie of Pauie an Italian knight,Sir Amerie de Pauie. or (as o|ther bookes haue) he was but capteine of the castell, or of some one of the towers of that towne, which sée|meth more like to be true, than that the king should commit the whole charge of the towne vnto his go|uernement, being a stranger borne, and therefore Ia|cobus Meir is the more to be credited, that writeth how sir Amerie of Pauie was left but in charge with the castell onelie, and that the towne was com|mitted to the kéeping of the lord Iohn Beauchampe, and Lewes his brother.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 But now that there was a peace thus concluded betwixt the two kings,134 [...] it seemed to the English peo|ple that the sunne brake foorth after a long cloudie season, by reason both of the great plentie of althings, Thom. [...] and remembrance of the late glorious victories: for there were few women that were housekéepers within this land, but they had some furniture of hous|hold that had béene brought to them out of France, as part of the spoile got in Caen, Calis, Carenien, or some other good towne. And beside houshold stuffe, the English maides and matrones were bedecked and trimmed vp in French womens iewels and ap|parell, so that as the French women lamented for the losse of those things, so our women reioised of the gaine. In this 22 yeare, Anno Reg [...]. Great [...] from Midsummer to Christ|masse for the more part it continuallie rained, so that there was not one day and night drie togither, by reason whereof great flouds insued, and the ground therewith was sore corrupted, and manie inconueni|ences insued, as great sickenes, and other, in somuch that in the yeare following in France the people di|ed woonderfullie in diuerse places. In Italie also, and in manie other countries,1349 Anno Reg. 13. as well in the lands of the infidels, as in christendome,A great mor|talitie. this grieuous mor|talitie reigned to the great destruction of people. ¶A|bout the end of August, the like death began in di|uerse places of England, and especiallie in London, continuing so for the space of twelue moneths fol|lowing. And vpon that insued great barrennesse, as well of the sea, as the land,Dearth. neither of them yéelding such plentie of things as before they had doone. Wher|vpon vittels and corne became scant and hard to come by.