Compare 1577 edition: 1 Beside the agreements taken and made with the townes, diuerse noble men made seuerall com|positions, as Gaston de Fois, & Capdaw de Bue [...], whome king Henrie the fift made earle of Longe|uile, and knight of the garter; whose ancestors were euer true to England. Which agréed, that he and his sonne Iohn de Fois, whome king Henrie the sixt made earle of Kendale, and also knight of the garter, should enioy all their lands in Aquitaine, giuen to them by the kings of England, or by the dukes of Aquitaine. And sith their intent was still to serue the king of England, they agréed to deliuer into the custodie of the earle of Fois, the sonne and heire of the said earle of Kendale, being of the age of thrée yeares; to the intent that if he at his full age denied to become subiect to the French king, or before that time deceassed; that then (after the death of his father and grandfather) all the said lands should wholie re|maine to the next heire of their bloud, either male or female, being vnder the obeisance of the French king or his heires.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Manie other noble men, whose hearts were good English, made like compositions, and some came in|to England, and others went to Calis, and bare great offices there: as the lord Duras, which was marshall of that towne; and monsieur Uauclere, which was deputie there vnder the earle of War|wike. Thus were the Englishmen cléerelie displaced and lost the possession of all the countries, townes,All lost in France. castels, and places within the realme of France; so that onelie Calis, Hammes and Guines, with the marches thereof remained in their hands, of all those their dominions and seigniories which they sometime EEBO page image 637 held in the parties beyond the seas. Whereby Eng|land suffered a partile but not a totall eclipse of hir glorie, in continuall loosing & nothing gaining of the enimie. ¶ Which recouerie was of great facilitie to the French, Abr. Fl. ex [...] sub He [...]. 6. for that where they came, they found litle or no resistance, but rather a voluntarie submis|sion & yéelding as it were with holding vp of hands, yer they came to handstroks. So that in such victories and conquests consisted small renowme, sith without slaughter & bloudshed hardie enterprises are not at|chiued. Notablie therefore speaketh Anglorum praelia of these bloudlesse and sweatlesse victories, saieng:

Delphinus totos (nullo prohibente) per agros

Francorum transit, priùs expugnata receptans

Oppida: perfacile est populum domuisse volentem,

Tendentem manus vltrò; nec clarior ornat

Gloria vincentem fuso sine sanguine regna.

Anno Reg. 30. Iohn Hooker, aliàs Vowell. The king re|ceiued into Excester.[This yeare the king made a generall progresse and came to the citie of Excester, on mondaie the sixtéenth of Iulie at after noone, being the feast daie of saint Kenelme; and was receiued from place to place verie honorablie through the whole countrie. Before he came to this citie, he was met by all the cleargie in their degrées, some thrée miles, some two miles, and some at the citie, all in their copes, censing all the waies as they went. As soone as he came to this citie, he was first conducted to the cathedrall church in all most honourable order. When he had doone his oblations, he was conueied and lodged in the bishops house. During his abode here, there was a sessions kept before the duke of Summerset, and certeine men condemned to die for treason, and had iudgement to be executed to death.