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Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the time that the quéene and hir sonne laie in the court of the earle of Heinault, Fabian. A marriage concluded. a marriage was concluded betwixt the prince of Wales, and the la|die Philip, daughter to the said earle, vpon certeine conditions, whereof one was, that the said erle should at his proper costs set ouer into England the said prince of Wales, with a crue of foure hundred men of armes. But whether there was any such mariage as then concluded, and that in consideration thereof, the earle of Heinault aided quéene Isabell and hir sonne, it may be doubted, bicause other writers make no such report. Neuerthelesse, certeine it is, that the earls brother sir Iohn de Heinault lord Beaumont, was appointed with certeine bands of men of arms, to the number of foure hundred or fiue hundred, to passe ouer with the said quéene and hir sonne into England, and so therevpon began to make his pur|ueiance for that iournie, which thing when it came to the knowledge of king Edward and the Spensers, they caused musters to be taken through the realme, and ordeined beacons to be set vp, kept and watched, as well in the vallies by the sea side, Caxton. Prouision made in Eng+land to resist the quéene. as within the countries, vpon hilles and high grounds, that the same vpon occasion of the enimies arriuall, might be set on fire, to warne the countries adioining to as|semble and resist them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But quéene Isabell and hir sonne, with such others as were with hir in Heinault, staied not their iour|nie for doubt of all their aduersaries prouision, but immediatlie after that they had once made their purueiances, and were readie to depart, they tooke the sea, namelie the queene, hir sonne, Edmund of Wodstoke earle of Kent, sir Iohn de Heinault a|foresaid, and the lord Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, a man of good experience in the warres, and diuerse others, Tho. Walsin. The quéene with hir son land in Suf|folke. hauing with them a small companie of Eng|lishmen, with a crue of Heinewiers and Almains, to the number of 2757 armed men, the which sai|ling foorth towards England, landed at length in Suffolke, at an hauen called Orwell besides Har|wich, the 25 daie of September. Immediatlie after that the queene and hir sonne were come to land, it was woonder to sée how fast the people resorted vnto them; and first of all, the earle Marshall, in whose l [...]nds she first came on shore, repaired vnto hir, Tho. Walsi, so did the earle of Leicester, and diuerse barons & knights of those parts, with all the prelats in manner of the land, as the bishops of Lincolne, Hereford, Dubline, and Elie, the which being ioined with the queene, EEBO page image 338 made a great armie.The readi|nesse of the prelats to assist the quéene. The archbishop of Canturbu|rie and others aided hir with monie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After that she had refreshed hir people a little space at saint Edmundsburie, she marched foorth to seeke the aduersaries of hir and of the realme, as she bruted it; but they still kéeping themselues néere to the kings person, that vnder the shadow of the wings of his protection they might remaine in more safegard, durst not depart from his presence. At the time of the queenes landing he was at London, and being sore amazed with the newes, he required aid of the Londoners.The answer of the Lon|doners to the king. They answered, that they would doo all the honour they might vnto the king, the queene, and to their sonne the lawfull heire of the land: but as for strangers & traitors to the realme, they would kéepe them out of their gates, and resist them with all their forces: but to go foorth of the citie further than that they might returne before sunne-setting, they refused, pretending certeine liberties in that behalfe to them granted in times past, as they alledged.

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