foredeal

An advantage; benefit; profit.

[...] and at a great foredeal already; [and as for] such foredeal that they despair not of the...a deal, but that through the help of God, [our Grace and] other good ministers, these personages which [shall be now] sent shall undoubtedly conclude [...]

And thus the battaile was great, and oftentimes that one partie was at a foredele and anon at an afterdele, which endured long.

The first place; lead; precedence; preference.

Progress; advancement.

To store; lay past; keep in reserve; hoard.