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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The prince being thus accompanied with these worthie capteins and men of armes, to the number of twelue hundred, beside a thousand archers and o|ther footmen, indeuored by all waies he could deuise to indamage them within. In the end he caused the walles to be vndermined,Limoges ta|ken by [...]orce. and quite reuersed into the ditch, & then giuing assault, entered by the breach, and made an huge slaughter of them within, in so|much that of men, women, and children (for none were spared in respect of age or sex) there were slaine and beheaded that daie aboue thrée thousand. The bi|shop with certeine knights and capteins were taken and had their liues granted, though the bishop was in great danger to haue lost his head, bicause he was a cheefe dooer in yéelding the citie before vnto the Frenchmen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Whilest the prince laie at siege before Limoges (a litle before he wan it) thither came to him his bre|thren, Polydor. Froissard. the duke of Lancaster, and the earle of Cam|bridge, the lord Ros, sir Michaell de la Pole, sir Ro|bert Rous, sir Iohn Saint [...]o, and sir William Beau|champe, with a faire number of men of war, spears, and archers. The prince then after he had woone Li|moges, and executed some crueltie there to the ter|rour of other; his maladie which still continued vpon him, rather increased than diminished, so that he was aduised by physicians to returne into England, in hope that change of aire should restore him to health. For the which consideration and other causes of busi|nesse which he had to doo with his father,The prince returned into England. Thom. Wals. touching cer|teine weightie affaires he tooke the sea, and came o|uer into England, leauing the gouernement of A|quitaine vnto his brother the duke of Lancaster, as his lieutenant there: he landed at Plimmouth in the beginning of Ianuarie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Moreouer in this 44 yeare of king Edward,The king of Nauarr [...] c [...]|meth ouer [...] to England. the king of Nauarre came ouer into England, and at Claringdon found the king, and there talked with him of such matters as they had to conclude betwixt them two. Polydor. But for that the king of Nauarre could not assure the king of such couenants as should haue passed betwixt them two, it was not thought meet by the kings councell to worke too far vpon his bare word, that had before time shewed apparant proofes of his inconstant dealing. And suerlie this doubt arose not without cause,The king of Nauare c [...]|stancie sus|pected. Froissard. as his dooings shortlie after de|clared: for although he séemed now at this present to be a verie enimie to the French king, yet shortlie af|ter he was reconciled to him againe, and became his great freend for the time it lasted. This yeare in the moneth of Februarie was a parlement called,1371 Anno Reg. [...] in the which there was demanded of the spiritualtie a subsidie of fiftie thousand pounds, Caxton. and as much of the laitie.A subsidie. The temporall men soone agréed to that pai|ment, but the cleargie excused themselues with faire words and shifting answers: in somuch that the king tooke displesure with them, and deposed certeine spirituall men from their offices of dignitie, as the chancellor, the priuie seale, the treasuror,Spirituall men deposed. and such o|thers, in whose roomes he placed temporall men.

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