Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Within a few daies after, the earle of Lancaster required the quéenes, that they would call vpon the king to grant his safe conduct for the king of Eng|land, to reuoke the citation or summons, to re|store the lands taken from him; and to deliuer the pledges: but the French king by the mouths of cer|teine knights sent vnto the earle,The French K. renounceth what he had said. renounced all such couenants as before had béene concluded. The earle of Lancaster then perceiuing that both he and his brother king Edward were mocked thus at the French kings hands, returned into England, and in|formed the king & his councell from point to point of all the matter. Herevpon a parlement being cal|led at Westminster, at the which the king of Scot|land was present, it was decréed by the states, that those lands which were craftilie taken so from the K. should be recouered againe by the sword. And the king herewith sent vnto the French king a frier preacher named Hugh of Manchester,Hugh of M [...]|chester a [...] sent to the French king and a frier minor called William de Gainesbourgh, both being wise and discréet men, and doctours of diuinitie, to declare vnto him, that sith he would not obserue such agréements as had béene concluded betwixt their ancestours; and further had broken such couenants as were now of late agreed vpon betwixt them, by the trauell of his brother Edmund earle of Lanca|ster:The king of England re+nounceth the French king there was no cause whie he ought to account him being king of England, and duke of Guien, as his liegeman, neither did he intend or meane further to be bound vnto him by reason of his homage.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About the same time did the king of England send the archbishop of Dubline,Ambassadors sent into Ger+manie. and the bishop of Duresme into Germanie, about the concluding of a league with Adolph king of Romans, to whome was giuen a great summe of monie (as was said) vpon couenants, that he should aid the king of Eng|land against the French king, with all his maine force, and that neither of them should conclude peace with the said French king without consent of the o|ther. About the Ascension tide, king Edward staied the woolles of this land,Wolles [...] Fabian. aswell belonging to spiritu|all men as temporall men, till the merchants had fi|ned with him for the same,A subsidie raised of [...] so that there was a subsi|die paied for all sarpliers of wooll that went out of the relme, and in semblable wise for felles and hides. He also sent an armie by sea into Gascoigne, vnder the conduct of his nephue Iohn of Britaine that was earle of Richmond,An armie sent to Gascoigne. appointing to him as councel|lours, the lord Iohn saint Iohn, and the lord Robert Tiptost; men of great wisdome, and verie expert in warlike enterprises.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 He also caused thrée seuerall fléets to be prepared, N. Triuet. and appointed to them thrée sundrie admerals, for the better kéeping of the seas.Thrée fléets appointed to the sea. To them of Yarmouth and other of those parts, he assigned the lord Iohn Botetourt: to them of the cinque ports, William de Leiborne: and to them of the west countrie, and to the Irishmen, he appointed a valiant knight of Ireland as their chéefteine. This yeare in England was a great dearth and scarsitie of corne,A dearth. Rich. South. so that a quarter of wheat in manie places was sold for thirtie shillings: by reason whereof poore people died in manie places for lacke of sustnance. About Michael|mas, the English fléet tooke the sea at Portesmouth,The English armie passeth to Gascoigne. and after some contrarie winds, yet at last they arri|ued within the riuer of Garon,Towns [...], Nic. Triuet. Polydor. Abington. and so passing vp the same riuer, wan diuers townes, as Burge, Blaines, Rions, and others.