The English esquier seeing the infortunate euent of this triall to fall to the shame of the challenger, was so far from reiossing at his ouerthrow,The compas|sion of the Englishman to his eni [...]. that he was touched with christian compassion, & moorned for his enimie, for whome also he kept an obsequie as if he had béene his owne naturall brother, and descen|ded of the same parents. For which mercifull moti|ons of mind inwardlie working, and outwardlie ap|pearing, he was of the king greatlie commended. But doubtfull it is, whether the other, if he had surui|ued, and got the vpper hand, would haue had the like reuerend care of the Englishmans dead bodie, as to haue vouchsafed it a solemne interrement.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 As the affaires in France now were neither well looked to, nor the gouernours there well aduised, Anno Reg. [...]. an English capteine called sir Francis Suriennes,Sir Francis Suriennes. sur|named the Aragonois, of the countrie where he was borne, a man for his wit and actiuitie admitted into the order of the garter, tooke by scaling suddenlie in the night of the euen of our ladie daie in Lent, a towne on the frontiers of Normandie, belonging to the duke of Britaine called Fougiers,Fougiers. spoiling the same, and killing the inhabitants. The duke of Bri|taine, EEBO page image 629 being hereof aduertised, sent word by the bi|shop of Reimes to the French king, beseeching him of his aid and counsell in the matter.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The French king foorthwith sent his caruer Iohn Hauart, and Iohn Cosinet one of the maisters of his requests to the king of England: and to the duke of Summerset he dispatched Peter de Fonteins the maister of his horsse. To which messengers answer was made aswell by the king as the duke, that the fact was doone without their knowledge. And for the truce to be kept, and not onelie restitution, but also amends to be made to the duke of Britaine, a daie of diet was appointed to be kept at Louuiers, where the commissioners on both parts being assembled, the Frenchmen demanded amends, with no small re|compense. The Englishmen answered, that without offense, nothing by iustice ought to be satisfied; affir|ming the dooing of sir Francis Sureinnes to be one|lie his act, without consent either of the king of Eng|land, or of the duke of Summerset his lieutenant and regent.