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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now it chanced, that whilest the prince of Wales was passing thorough Nauarre, toward the entrie of Spaine, certeine of those Frenchmen, vnder the lea|ding of sir Oliuer Mannie,The king of Nauarre ta|ken by the Frenchmen. tooke the king of Na|uarre prisoner, as he was riding from one towne to an other. Manie maruelled at that chance, and some there were that thought he suffered himselfe to be ta|ken for a caut [...]le, bicause he would not aid the prince of Wales any further, nor conduct him through his realme, as he had promised to doo. But the prince no|thing dismaid herewith, passed forward, by the gui|ding of a knight of Nauarre,Sir Martin de Care. called sir Martin de Care, and finallie came to the confines of Spaine, and lodged at Uictoria, not far from his enimies. For king Henrie of Spaine, vnderstanding which waie the prince drew, came forward to incounter him, and pight downe his field, not far from the bor|ders of his realme, at a place called saint Muchaule: and thus were both the hosts lodged within a small di|stance the one against the other.Saint Ma|chaule.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 King Henrie had sent to the prince an herauld of armes with a letter,The king of Spaine sen|deth to the prince. requiring to know of him for what cause he moued warre against him, sith he had neuer offended him. The prince taking deliberation for answer of this letter, kept the messenger with him, and perceiuing that king Henrie came not for|ward, but laie still at saint Muchaule, stronglie in|camped,Uictoria. Uiana. he remooued from Uictoria, and came to a towne called Uiana, where he staied two daies to re|fresh his people, and after went forward, and passed the riuer which diuideth the realmes of Castile and Nauarre, at the bridge of Groigne. King Henrie ad|uertised hereof, departed from saint Muchaule, and came before the towne of Nauarret, situat on the same riuer. Not manie daies before the prince pas|sed the riuer at Groigne, king Henrie had sent foorth two of his brethren, the earle Dom Teille, and the lord Sanches, with six hundred horssemen, to view the princes host. Polydor.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 They chanced to incounter two hundred English horssemen, whom after long and sharpe fight they di|stressed, & slue sir William Felton, one of the chiefe leaders of those EnglishmenSir William Felton [...]Froissard. and tooke sir Thomas Felton his brother, sir Hugh Hastings, and diuerse other, both knights and esquiers. Whether that king Henrie was greatlie incouraged by this good lucke in the beginning, or that he trusted through the great multitude of his people, which he had there with him, to haue the vpper hand of his enimies, true it is that he coueted sore to giue them battell; and although he might haue wearied the prince, and constreined him for want of vittels to haue returned, or to haue fought with him at some great aduantage, if he had deferred the battell, as the marshall of France Dan|drehen gaue counsell, yet he would néeds fight in all the hast, and therefore did thus approch his enimies.

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