Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 These newes being brought into England, caused king Henrie to make hast in sending foorth his ar|mie,King Henrie sendeth foorth his armie a|gainst the French. and therefore was the lord Brooke, with sir Iohn Cheinie, sir Iohn Middleton, sir Rafe Hilton, sir Ri|chard Corbet, sir Thomas Leighton, sir Richard La|ton, and sir Edmund Cornewall sent ouer into Bri|taine with all conuenient speed, hauing with them an eight thousand men, well armed and furnished in warlike wise, to aid the duke of Britaine against the Frenchmen. These lustie capteins being arriued in Britaine, after they had a little refreshed them, mar|ched forward, and comming neere to their enimies, pitched downe their field, not farre from the French|mens campe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Frenchmen by experience knowing the Eng|lishmen (so long as they be fresh and lustie) in maner to be inuincible,When the French be i [...]uincible. thought not good to match with them in open battell, till they were somewhat wearied with lieng and lingering abroad in the field. And therefore at the first they sought to wearie them with light skirmishes, appointing their horssemen to giue them alarmes, & some skirmishes; in the which the French|men, by reason of the English archers (which galled both men and horsses) were euer put to the worsse. But behold the mutabilitie of worldlie chances! Whiles this warre was thus set forward, Francis duke of Britaine departed this life,Francis duke [...] Britaine [...]eth. & then the cheefe rulers of Britain, falling at dissention among them|selues, tendered not the defense of their countrie, but rather minded the destruction thereof.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Herevpon the Englishmen, perceiuing in what danger they were, and considering that it was in the middest of winter, a time not meet for men of warre to lie in the cold and frostie fields, they returned into England, within fiue monethes after their first set|ting foorth. So that finallie the French king got the vpper hand of the Britons, and did incorporate that duchie to his realme and crowne of France,The duchie of Britaine in|corporated to the realme of France. as in the historie of France it may appeere at large. ¶ In Iulie this yeere was a prest leuied for the king in the citie of London, of foure thousand pounds, which was repaied the yeare next following. In September, the quéene was deliuered at Winchester of hir first sonne, named prince Arthur; Iohn Stow. The birth of prince Ar|thur. and the fiue and twen|tith of Nouember (next insuing) she was crowned at Westminster with all due solemnitie.