Destroyed also a grete Contrey w_i_t_h_ sundry villag_es_ and Townes therin, and to the grete and high hono_ur_ of o_ur_ soueraigne and his valiaunt nacion, and the grete Lawde and Prayse of the well fortunate and sawge Capetayn, the yerle of Surrey, whiche taryed in the Domynyons of the saide Francoyse w_i_t_h_ a smale Nombr_e_ of men in comparyson by the space or vj or vij wekys where all the power of Fraunce durst not geue hym battayll whiche sayde valiant Capeteyne, I trust by goddes help, shall ou_er_throw and subdue also the Skott_es_, whome the Frenche men haue so custuously intertayned, and of so long tyme mayntayned agaynst vs, whiche thingg_es_, yf almyghty god of his goodnes, wyll suffre to contynue this a while, there ys no dowte but that their hawlte and mysprowde Cowrage shall or owght long abate, and that we shall constrayne theym to be glad to entret for pease as men dryuen in to grete and extreme Dyspayre, seing their pec_es_ whiche they haue bene so long in gettyng bene so valiauntly and w_i_t_h_owt any hardynesse in theym to make Resystance pullid away from theym, and they dare not trye hyt by the sworde, nother w_i_t_h_ vs, nor w_i_t_h_ the saide Emparo_ur_s Subiect_es_ for whan soeu_er_ they so doo, they wyn nowght ellys but a shamefull overthrow, as we all know, by good experyence. But now myght yt be in questyon whyther hyt showld be for the more aduaunsyng of o_ur_ most Rodowtyd Souerayns Hono_ur_ and the Empero_ur_s Mageste also, and more vayllable for the spedy acheuyng of bothe their desiryd purposys other to contynew styll thys kynde of warre whyche hytherto god be thancked hathe so prosperously succedyd or ellys to chaunge o_ur_ warre in to another kynde, more sharper, more violent and also more terable, that is to say, where he hathe not bene so hardy as to mete A meane Armyee, other of owers or of the Empero_ur_s, to conuey now in to hys Realme on eyther of o_ur_ sydys, so grete and myghty a puyss_au_nce as shalbe able by goddys ayde, clerely to vanquysshe hym vtterly and to subdue hym.