Compare 1577 edition: 1 When they had made readie their cariages and o|ther things necessarie for such a iournie which they had taken in hand, that is to say, to passe through the realme of France vnto Burdeaux, they set forward, hauing their armie diuided into thrée battels. The earles of Warwike and Suffolke did lead the fore+ward: the two dukes of Lancaster and Britaine, the middle ward or battell, and the rereward was go|uerned by the lord Spenser constable of the host. They passed by S. Omers, by Turrouane, and coa|sted the countrie of Arthois, and passed the water of Some at Corbie.They [...] through the coun [...]rie w [...]+out assauling any townes. They destroied the countries as they went, and marched not past thrée leages a day. They assailed none of the strong townes, nor fortres|ses. For the French king had so stuffed them with notable numbers of men of warre, that they percei|ued they should trauell in vaine about the winning of them. At Roy in Uermandois, they rested them seuen daies, and at their departure set fire on the towne, bicause they could not win the church which was kept against them. From thence they drew to|wards Laon, and so marched forward, passing the ri|uers of Ysare, Marne, Saine, and Yonne. The Frenchmen coasted them, but durst not approch to giue them battell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Neere to Ribaumount, about 80 Englishmen of sir Hugh Caluerlies band were distressed by 120 Frenchmen: & likewise beside Soissons, Fabian. 120 Eng|lish speares, or (as other writers haue) fiftie speares, and twentie archers were vanquished by a Burgo|nian knight called sir Iohn de Uienne, that had with him thrée hundred French speares. Of more hurt by anie incounters I read not that the Englishmen su|steined in this voiage.The French|men meant not to fight with the Englishmen For the Frenchmen kept them aloofe, and meant not to fight with their eni|mies, but onelie to kéepe them from vittels, and fet|ching of forrage abroad, by reason whereof the Eng|lishmen lost manie horsses, and were in déed driuen to great scarsitie of vittels. When they had passed the riuer of Loire, Polydor. and were come into the countrie of Berrie, they vnderstood how the Frenchmen laid themselues in sundrie ambushes to distresse them, if they might espie the aduantage: but the duke of Lan|caster placing his light horssemen, with part of the ar|chers in the fore ward, and in the battell the whole force of his footmen with the men at armes, diuided into wings to couer that battell, wherein he himselfe was,The order of the duke of Lancasters armie in marching. the residue of the horssemen with the rest of the archers he appointed to the rereward, and so causing them to keepe close togither, marched foorth till he came into Poictou, & then in reuenge of the Poicto|uins that had reuolted from the English obeisanc [...], he began a new spoile, killing the people, wasting the countrie, and burning the houses and buildings euerie where as he passed,He cõmeth [...] to Burdeaux Froissard. The archb. of Rauenna [...] from the p [...]p [...] & so finallie about Christ|masse came to Burdeaux.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Whilest the duke of Lancaster was thus passing through the realme of France, pope Gregorie the e|leuenth sent the archbishop of Rauenna and the bi|shop of Carpentras as legats from him, to treat for a peace betwixt the realms of England and France. They rode to & fro betwixt the French king and his brethren, and the duke of Lancaster: but the duke and the Englishmen kept on their waie, and so finallie kéeping forwards about Christmasse came to Burdeaux. The legats pursued their treatie, but the parties were so hard, that no reasonable offers would be taken. The two dukes of Lancaster and Britaine laie in Burdeaux all the residue of the win|ter, and the Lent following. The same yeare that the duke of Lancaster made this iournie thorough France, Caxton. Messengers sent to the pope about r [...]|seruations o [...] benefices. the king of England sent certeine ambas|sadors to the pope, requiring him not to meddle with the reseruations of benefices within his realme of England, but that those which were elected bishops might inioy their sees, and be confirmed of their me|tropolitane EEBO page image 409 and archbishop, as of ancient time they had beene accustomed.