Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Iacob. Meir. There died of Englishmen at this battell about foure hundred. The Flemings had no horssemen a|mongst them, nor anie number of gentlemen, for they stood in such dread of English bowes, that they durst not come to anie battell with them, but kéeping themselues out of danger, set the commons of the countrie in hand to trie what they against the Eng|lishmen were able to doo without them. This battell was fought vpon a mondaie being the fifteenth of Maie. The countrie was put in a woonderfull feare by this ouerthrow, so that the townes and fortresses were in great doubt, and some yeelded themselues to the Englishmen, as Berghen and others; some were woone by force, as the castell of Drinchan, and the towne of S. Uenant. To be short, the Englishmen became maisters of all the countrie alongst the sea side, euen from Grauelin to Sluis,The English|mẽ subdue di|uerse towns in Flanders, and spoile the countrie. and got such ri|ches by pillage and spoile, as they could not wish for greater. They preuailed so much, that they wan in maner all the close towns within the bailiffewéekes of Cassell, of Popering, Messines, and Furneis, with the townes of Newport, Blankberke, and di|uerse other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Also entring into the woods Nepse and Rutholt, they found a great bootie of sheepe and beasts, and tooke a great sort of prisoners of the countrie people, which were fled into those woods for feare of the eni|mies: but the Englishmen, plaieng the part of good bloudhounds, found them out, & sent all their booties and preie vnto Grauelin and Bruckburge. On the eight daie of Iune they came before the towne of Y|pres, and laid siege thereto,The towne of Ypres besiged. whereat they continued the space of nine wéekes. Thither came to their aid twentie thousand Gauntiners vnder the leading of Francis Akreman, Peter Wood, and Peter Win|ter: so that they within Ypres were streictlie besie|ged, but there were within it in garrison diuerse va|liant knights & capteins,The maner of fortifieng townes in old time. which defended the towne right manfullie: it was fensed with a mightie ram|pire, and a thicke hedge, trimlie plashed and woond with thornes, as the manner of fortifieng townes was in ancient time amongst them in that countrie (as Strabo witnesseth.)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 During the time that the siege laie before Ypres, the Englishmen swarmed abroad in the countrie, for when it was once knowne what good successe the first companie that went ouer had found, there came dailie foorth of England great numbers to be parta|kers of the gaine.Hope of gaine incourageth the soldier. Sir Iohn Philpot that fauoured the bishops iournie, prouided them of vessels for their passage, till the bishop vnderstanding that the more part of those that came thus ouer were vnarmed, and brought nothing with them from home, but onelie swords, bowes and arrowes, did write vnto the said sir Iohn Philpot, that he should suffer none to passe the seas, but such as were men able and likelie to doo seruice: where a great number of those that were come to him, were fit for nothing but to consume vittels, much like the popish shauelings and the Ro|mish rascalitie, of whome the like is spoken thus:

Nos numerus sumus & fruges consumere nati.