Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But now to returne to the duke of Lancaster. Ye shall vnderstand that after the departure of the French armie beside the hill of Turneham, the said duke returned to Calis, and there refreshed himselfe and his people the space of thrée daies. And then he set forward againe,The duke of Lãcaster ma|keth a iournie into France. & with him as marshals of the host, was the earle of Warwike, and the lord Roger Beauchampe, with the lords and knights before re|membred. They tooke their iournie to S. Omers, and by Turwin, and then through the countie of saint Paule, still burning the countrie as they went. They rode not past thrée or foure leages in a daie, and kee|ping on their waie,S. Riquier. they came by saint Riquier, and at the planches vnder Abuile passed the riuer of Some, and then entred into the countrie of Uimew, in purpose to go vnto Harflew, and there to burne the French kings nauie. Thus passing forward tho|rough Uimew, and the countie of Ewe, they entered into the archbishoprike of Roan, and marching foorth by Déepe, came vnto Harflew: but the earle of saint Poule, and the lord of Fiennes constable of France which had coasted the English armie in all this iour|nie, with a great power of men, was gotten before them, and entred into this towne, so that they knew how they should but lose their paine, if they did assaile it, and so therefore after they had lien before it thrée daies, on the fourth day they dislodged, & went backe againe towards Calis, returning through the coun|trie of Ponthieu, Fabian. The master [...] the crosbowes of France taken. and before Abuile chanced to in|counter a number of Frenchmen, which gaue to the duke battell. In the which was taken sir Hugh de Chatellon, master of the crosbowes of France, with other knights, esquiers, and burgesses of that towne, and about sixtéene score of the French part slaine.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 There be that write otherwise herof, Froissard. shewing how the said sir Hugh Chatellon was taken by an am|bush laid by sir Nicholas Louaine, as the same sir Hugh was come foorth of the towne, with not past ten or twelue with him, to see how the passage of Ro|wraie was kept by them that had charge thereof. How soeuer it came to passe, taken he was, & brought to the duke of Lancaster, that reioised greatlie of that good hap: and so marching forward, he passed the riuer at Blanchetaque, and drew towards the towne of Rew on the sea side, and so to Montreuill, and fi|nallie to Calis. Then were the strangers licenced to depart: and bicause it was far in the winter, as a|bout saint Martines tide, the duke and the most part of his armie returned into England.The third mortalitie. Caxton. Polychron. The earle of Warwike de|parteth this life. In this yeare chanced the third mortalitie, which was excéeding great both of men and beasts, that the like had not béene heard of. And amongst other people that peri|shed of that pestilentiall sickenesse, that worthie knight and noble capteine the earle of Warwike di|ed at Calis in the moneth of Ianuarie, after his re|turne from Hartlew. ¶ The countrie of Aquitaine was full of trouble in this meane time, either part séeking to grieue other to the vttermost of their powers. ¶ Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke, ha|uing with him certeine bands of men of warre, Polydor. re|couered diuerse towns and castels in those parts: but when he perceiued how the enimies that were not far from the place where he was lodged, shewed ma|nifest tokens of feare, in marching one while vncer|teinelie forward, and an other while fetching great compasses about, he somewhat vnwarilie setting vp|on them in their campe, was discomfited and put to flight, Froissard. so that getting him into a place of the Tem|plers, that was closed about with a wall, he remai|ned there in great danger to be taken prisoner of his enimies that assailed him, if the lord Iohn Chandois seneschall of Poictou had not come to the rescue, and pledged him foorth.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 But shortlie after, Thom. W [...]. Sir Iohn Chandois slaine. Froissard. the said lord Chandois was slaine by the enimies (whom first he had ouercome) whilest without good aduise he put off his helmet, and so receiuing a stroke with a glaiue that entered into his head, betwixt his nose and his forhead, he neuer after spake word, not liuing past a day and a night after he was hurt. The death of this right famous, wise, and valiant knight, was bewailed as well of the Frenchmen as Englishmen. The French king himselfe, when he heard that he was slaine, greatlie lamented the mishap, affirming that now he being dead, there was not any le [...]t aliue able to agree the kings and realmes of England and France: so much was he feared, esteemed, and beloued of all men. But alas what auailed all their mourning and lamen|ting against the necessitie of death, sith we know that
Est commune mori, mors nulli parcit honori:After he was thus slaine,Sir Tho|mas Percie sir Thomas Percie was made seneschall of Poictou. By reason of the great wet and raine that fell this yeare in more abun|dance than had béene accustomed,A dearth. Hen. Marle. much corne was lost, so that the price thereof was sore inhanced, in so much that wheat was sold at thrée shillings foure pence the bushell. But as concerning the death, the west parts of the realme was sorest afflicted with this mortalitie, and namelie at Oxford there died a great number of scholers.