Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king meaning to passe ouer himselfe in per|son into France,The king prepareth to make a iour|nie into France. Froissard. The duke of Lancaster. caused a mightie armie to be mu|stered and put in a readinesse, and sent before him the duke of Lancaster ouer to Calis with foure hun|dred speares, and two thousand archers, where the said duke ioined with such strangers as were alrea|die come to Calis in great numbers, and togither with them entered into the French dominions, and passing by saint Omers & Bethune, came to Mount saint Eloie, a goodlie abbeie and a rich, two leagues distant from Arras, and there the host tarried foure daies, and when they had robbed and wasted all the countrie thereabout, they rode to Braie,Braie as|saulted. and there made a great assault, at the which a baronet of Eng|land was slaine with diuerse other. When the Eng|lishmen saw they could win nothing there, they de|parted, and following the water of Some, came to a towne called Chersie, where they passed the riuer, and there tarried Alhallowen daie, & the night following.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 On the same daie the duke of Lancaster was ad|uertised,The kings arriuall at Calis. that the king was arriued at Calis the se|uentéenth daie of October, commanding him by let|ters to draw towards him with all his companie. The duke according to the kings commandement o|beied, and so returned toward Calis. Froissard. The king being there arriued with all his power, tooke counsell which way he should take. Some aduised him first to in|uade Flanders, and to reuenge the iniurious dealing of the earle and the Flemings: Polydor. but he would not a|grée to that motion, for he purposed fullie either by plaine force to make a conquest of France, or else vt|terlie to destroie and wast the countrie throughout with fier and sword. Herevpon he set forwards the fourth of Nouember, and passing through the coun|tries of Arthois, and Uermendois, he came before the citie of Reimes. There went ouer with him in this iournie, & with the duke of Lancaster, his foure sonnes, Edward prince of Wales, Froissard. Lionell earle of Ulster, Iohn earle of Richmond, and the lord Ed|mund his yoongest sonne. Also there was Henrie the said duke of Lancaster, with the earles of March, Warwike, Suffolke, Hereford (who also was earle of Northampton) Salisburie, Stafford, and Oxford, the bishops of Lincolne, and Durham, and the lords Percie, Neuill, Spenser, Kirdiston, Rosse, Mannie, Cobham, Mowbray, de la Ware, Willoughbie, Fel|ton, Basset, Fitz Water, Charleton, Audelie, Bur|wasch, and others, beside knights and esquiers, as sir Iohn Chandois, sir Stephan Goussanton, sir Nowell Loring, sir Hugh Hastings, sir Iohn Lisle, sir Ri|chard Pembruge, and others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The siege was laid before Reimes about saint An|drewes tide, and continued more than seuen weekes:Reimes be|sieged. but the citie was so well defended by the bishop and the earle of Porcien, and other capiteins within it, that the Englishmen could not obteine their pur|pose, and so at length, when they could not haue for|rage nor other necessarie things abroad in the coun|trie for to serue their turne,1 [...]6 [...] the king raised his field, and departed with his armie in good order of battell, taking the way through Champaigne, and so passed by Chaalons, and after to Merie on the riuer of EEBO page image 393 Seine. Anno Reg. 34. Tonnere woone. From Merie he departed and came vnto Tonnere, which towne about the beginning of the foure and thirtith yeare of his reigne was woone by assault, but the castell could not be woone, for there was within it the lord Fiennes constable of France, and a great number of other good men of war, which defended it valiantlie.