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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On the fiue and twentith of Iulie, the treasuror and marshall of Calis, with fourtéene hundred foot|men, entered the French pale: and finding not mon|sieur de Foiat for whome they sought, they went to Whitsand baie, set the towne on fire, and assaulting the church, into which the people were withdrawne, wan it, and afterwards set fire on the steeple, bicause that diuerse, hauing shut vp themselues therein, through counsell of a priest that was with them, re|fused to yéeld, till the fire caused them to leape downe and so manie of them perished, and the rest were ta|ken prisoners, and led to Calis. About two daies be|fore this, to wit, the three and twentith daie of Iulie, one Thwaits a capteine of an English ship, with six score men, archers and others, tooke land beside Bul|longne, and passing vp into the countrie thrée miles to a towne called Newcastell, forraied all the parts as he went, and in his returne set fire on that towne, and burnt a great part thereof, and came againe to his ship in safetie, notwithstanding fourscore hagbut|ters, and thrée hundred other men of warre of the countrie came foorth, and pursued the Englishmen verie fiercelie: but the Englishmen putting them backe, got to their ship, and lost not a man.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Moreouer, whilest the warres were thus followed in France, the lord Rosse,The lords Rosse & D [...]|cres of the north [...] Scotland [...] spoile the [...] and the lord Dacres of the north, which were appointed to keepe the borders a|gainst Scotland, burnt the towne of Kelsie, and fourescore villages, & ouerthrew eighteene towers of stone, with all their barnekines. Also the king appointed the earle of Shrewesburie to be his lieute|nant generall of the north parts, against the inuasi|on which was intended by the duke of Albanie, which earle directed his letters to all the shires lieng from Trent northward, that all men should be in a readi|nesse. Order was taken by the cardinall, that the true value of all mens substance might be knowne, and he would haue had euerie man sworne to haue vttered the true valuation of that they were woorth, and required a tenth part thereof to bée granted to|wards the kings charges now in his warres,The cardinall will have [...] man [...] to tell [...] is woorth. in like case as the spiritualtie had granted a fourth part, and were content to liue on the other three parts.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 EEBO page image 875This demand was thought gréeuous to them of the citie of London, where the cardinall first mooued it; so that manie reasons were alleaged by them why they iudged themselues sore dealt with. In the end they brought in their billes, which were receiued vpon their honesties.The earle of [...]rrie sent [...] an armie [...] [...]nuade France. The king in this meane time, being now entered into wars with France, thought not to suffer his enimies to rest in quiet: and there|fore leauied an armie which he sent ouer to Calis, ap|pointing the earle of Surrie to be generall of the same. When the earle was come to Calis, and had taken order in his businesse for that iournie, he set forward with his armie, being diuided into thrée bat|tels or wards, of the which, the first was led by sir Robert Ratcliffe, lord Fitz Water, the middle ward or battell the earle himselfe guided, and with him his brother the lord Edmund Howard. The rere|ward was gouerned by sir William Sands, and sir Richard Wingfield, both being knights of the garter. Capteine of the horssemen was sir Edward Guilford.

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