Compare 1577 edition: 1 At the selfe same time that the defiance was made to the king here in England, the earle of S. Paule, and Guie de Chatillon master of the crosbowes in France, entered into the countie of Ponthieu, tooke Abuile,Sir Nicho|las Louaigne taken. and an English knight called sir Nicholas Louaigne seneshall of that countrie vnder the king of England, as then being within it. They tooke al|so saint Ualerie, Crotoie, Rue, Pont saint Renie,The [...] of Pont [...] taken by t [...]e French [...]. and to be short, reduced the whole countrie of Pon|thieu vnder the French obeisance, which had remai|ned in possession of the Englishmen for the space of a hundred and twelue yeares, euer since Edward the first had the same assigned to him in name of a dow|rie, with his wife queene Elianor, sister to Alfonse K. of Castile. And yet were the people of that coun|trie readie now to reuolt to the French dominion, notwithstanding their former long continued obei|sance to the Englishmen: for otherwise could not the Frenchmen so easilie haue come to their purpose, but that the people were couenanted before to re|ceiue them, and betraie those few Englishmen that were amongst them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time also, it fell so ill for the Eng|lishmen, that the prince of Wales was troubled with a sore sickenesse,The prince [...] Wales dis [...]|sed with sick|nesse. that had continued long with him, euer since his being in Spaine, by reason where|of his enimies were the more bold to make attempts against him, and dailie went about to allure and in|tise his subiects of the marches of Guien to reuolt from him, in somuch that the citie of Cahors,The citie of Cahors [...]|uolteth. and di|uerse other townes thereabout turned to the French part. Thus was the peace which had beene so suerlie made, and with so manie solemne oths confirmed, violated and broken, and the parties fallen togither by the eares againe in sundrie places, and namelie in Aquitaine, where sundrie armies were abroad in the fields, diuers sieges laid, manie townes taken, often incounters and skirmishes made, sometime to the losse of the one part, and sometime of the other, and the countries in the meane time harried and spoiled, that maruell it is to consider, and too long a processe it should be to rehearse the tenth part of such chances as dailie happened amongst them, so that it might well haue beene said of that sore & tumultuous time:

O quàm difficiles sunt sint pace dies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 King Edward sent ouer into Gascoigne the earls of Cambridge and Penbroke,Succors [...] into Gas|coigne. with a certeine num|ber of men of armes and archers, the which arriuing in Britaine, passed through that countrie by licence of the Duke, and came to the prince as then lieng at Angolesme in Poictou, by whom they were sent to o|uerrun the earle of Perigords lands, and so they did, and after laid siege to Burdille, hauing with them about thrée thousand men one and other.Burdille [...]|sieged. There came with them foorth of England foure hundred men of armes, foure hundred archers, and (as Frois|sard saith) beside their capteins, these earles which he nameth, to wit, the lord of Tabestone (or rather Bradstone as I take it) sir Brian Stapleton, sir Thomas Balaster, and sir Iohn Triuet. Whilest the said earles went thus to make warre against the earle of Perigord,Sir Hugh Caluerlie. sir Hugh Caluerlie with two thousand men of warre was sent also to ouerrun the lands of the earle of Arminacke, and of the lord Dal|bret;Sir Iohn Chandois. sir Iohn Chandois laie in the marches of Tho|louse at Mountaubon, & afterwards besieged Ter|rieres, and in the end wan it; and so likewise did the earles of Cambridge and Penbroke win Bur|dille,Burdille woon [...]. by reason of a saillie that they within made foorth, and passed so far from their fortresse, that the Englishmen got betwixt them and home.