Compare 1577 edition: 1 About this season, the duke of Orleance,The duke of Orleance his challenge. brother to the French king, a man of no lesse pride than hau|tinesse of courage, wrote letters to king Henrie, ad|uertising him, that for the loue he bare to the noble feats of chiualrie, he could imagine nothing either more honorable or cõmendable to them both, than to meet in the field each part with an hundred knights and esquiers, all being gentlemen, both of name and armes, armed at all points, and furnished with speares, axes, swords, and daggers, and there to fight and combat to the yeelding; and euerie pers [...]n, to whome God should send victorie, to haue his [...]iso|ner, & him to ransome at hi [...] pleasure, offering [...]|selfe with his companie to come to his citie of An|gulesine, so that the king would come to the lands of Burdeaux, and there defend this challenge.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 EEBO page image 525 The answer of king Hen|rie.The king of England grauelie answered herevn|to, that he maruelled why the duke vnder colour of dooing déeds of armes for a vaine-glorie, would now séeke to breake the peace betwixt the realmes of England and France, he being sworne to main|teine the same peace, sith he might further vnder|stand, that no king annointed, of verie dutie, was bound to answer anie challenge, but to his péere of equall state and dignitie: and further declared, that when opportunitie serued, he would passe the sea, and come into his countrie of Gascoigne, with such com|panie as he thought conuenient, and then might the duke set forward with his band, for the accompli|shing of his couragious desire, promising him in the word of a prince, not thence to depart, till the duke either by fulfilling his owne desire in manner afore|said, or by singular combat betwéene them two one|lie, for auoiding of more effusion of Christian bloud, should thinke himselfe fullie satisfied. To this and much more conteined in the kings answer, the duke replied, and the king againe reioined, not without tawnts and checks vnfitting for their estates. The duke of Orleance offended highlie (as he might séeme) furnished against the king of England with an armie of six thousand men,The duke of Orleance be|siegeth Uergi in Guien. entered into Guien, and besieged the towne of Uergi, whereof was cap|teine sir Robert Antlfield, a right hardie and valiant knight, hauing with him onelie thrée hundred Eng|lishmen, which defended the fortresse so manfullie, that the duke (after he had laine three moneths) and lost manie of his men, without honour or spoile re|turned into France.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After this, the admerall of Britaine highlie in|couraged, for that the last yeere he had taken certeine English ships laden with wines, acompanied with the lord du Chastell, a valiant baron of Britaine, and twelue hundred men of armes, sailed foorth with thir|tie ships from S. Malos, and came before the towne of Dartmouth, and would haue landed; but by the puissance of the townesmen and aid of the countrie, they were repelled, in the which conflict, the lord du Chastell,The lord du Chastell slaine. and two of his brethren, with foure hundred other were slaine, and aboue two hundred taken pri|soners and put to their ransoms, amongst whom the lord of Baqueuille the marshall of Britaine was one.Owen Glen|douer wasted the English marches. All this summer, Owen Glendouer and his ad|herents, robbed, burned, and destroied the countries adioining néere to the places where he hanted, and one while by sleight & guilefull policie, an other while by open force, he tooke and slue manie Englishmen, brake downe certeine castels which he wan, and some he fortified and kept for his owne defense. Iohn Trenor bishop of Assaph, considering with himselfe how things prospered vnder the hands of this O|wen, fled to him, and tooke his part against the king. About the same time, the Britaines and the Fle|mings tooke certeine ships of ours laden with mer|chandize,Crueltie of the Britains & Flemings. and slue all the marriners or else hanged them.