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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Here is to be remembred, that before king Ri|chard arriued at the siege, he incountred on the sea a mightie great ship called a Drommond, which one Saphaldine the brother of Saladine a prince of the Saracens had sent, Matt. Paris. Nic. Triue [...]. Saphaldine, the brother of Saladine. to refresh them with vittels. This ship king Richard caused féercelie to be assailed with his gallies, and at length bowged hir with all the vittels and prouision within the same, as wild|fire, barels of firie serpents, armour and weapons of sundrie sorts, besides all the mariners and men of warre, except such as were taken to mercie and sa|ued aliue, being about 200 in the whole, whereas there were aboord the same ship 500 men of warre, as some write, though other haue but 800. Matth. Paris N. Triue [...].

Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ But now to other accidents that chanced this yere.An eclipse of the sunne. On Midsummer eeue there was such an eclipse of the sunne, the moone being the same time 27. daies old, that for the space of thr [...]e houres (for so long it la|sted) such darknesse came ouer the face of the earth, that euen in the daie time (for this eclipse began a|bout nine of the clocke in the morning) the stars ap|peared plainelie in the element.The seuenth houre of the daie saith Matth. Paris.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the same moneth of Iune, Richard de Cam|ville, whome the king had left (as ye haue hea [...]d) go|uernour in Cypres, chanced to fall sicke,Richard de Camuille de|ceasseth. and com|ming without licence to the siege of Acres, there di|ed. After whose death the Cypriots and those called Griffones and [...]r [...]ians reuolted from the English obedience, and chose to them a king, one that was a moonke of the familie of Is [...]chus their former [...] but Robert de Turneham, who after the deceasse of Richard Camuille remained so [...] gouernour of the Ile, gathered a power of men togither, and giuing battest to the new king (whom [...]oueden name [...] al|so emperour) vanquished him with his complices, tooke him prisoner, and hanged him on a paire of ga|lowes. The same moneth also died [...]afe Fi [...]z Gef|frey, who had the other king Isac in cu [...]odie and then king Richard deliuered him to the [...]nights of the hospitall, who sent him to the ca [...]ell of Marg [...]t, there safelie to be kept as prisoner to the vse of the king of England.

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