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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The king not greatlie liking of this answer, forti|fied the tower,The king for|saketh Lon|don, and goeth towards the marches of Wales. and leauing within it his yoonger son Iohn of Eltham, and the wife of the lord chamber|leine Hugh Spenser the yoonger that was his neece, he departed towards the marches of Wales, there to raise an armie against the queene. Before his depar|ture from London,A proclama|tion set forth by the king. he set foorth a proclamation, that euerie man vnder paine of forfeiting of life & goods, should resist them that were thus landed, assaile, and kill them, the quéene, his sonne Edward, and his bro|ther the earle of Kent onelie excepted; and whosoeuer could bring the head or dead corps of the lord Morti|mer of Wigmore, should haue for his labour a thou|sand marks.The quéenes proclamation. The queenes proclamations on the other part willed all men to hope for peace, the Spensers publike enimies of the realme, and the lord chancellor Robert Baldocke, with their assistants onlie excep|ted, through whose meanes the present trouble was happened to the realme. And it was forbidden, that no man should take ought from any person, and who so euer could bring to the quéene the head of Hugh Spenser the yoonger, should haue two thousand pounds of the queenes gift.

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