Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 In this meane time the French king procured the pope to pronounce his cursse against the Flemings for their rebellion, and to suspend all diuine seruice that ought to be said in anie hallowed place,Flanders in|terdicted. so that there were no priests to be found that would take vp|on them to saie any diuine seruice: wherevpon the Flemings sent ouer into England certeine messen|gers to giue notice to king Edward how they were intreated, but he sent them word that he would bring at his comming ouer vnto them, priests that should saie masses and other seruice, whether the pope would or not, for he had priuilege so to doo. ¶ In Aprill, Wil|liam Melton archbishop of Yorke departed this life, after whome variance rose in the election of a new gouernour to that church, so that two were elected, William la Zouch, Ad. Merim. and William Killesbie: but at length William la Zouch tooke place, being the 43 archbishop that had sit in that seat. ¶ The earles of Salisburie and Suffolke, Adam Me|rimuth. Iac. Meir. which were left in Flan|ders by king Edward to helpe the Flemings, short|lie after Ester, or (as other haue) in the time of Lent, were discomfited by the garrison of Lisle, and taken prisoners as they would haue passed by that towne, to haue ioined with Iaques Arteueld,The earles of Salisburie & Suffolke ta|ken. meaning to besiege Tournie; but now by the taking of those two earles that enterprise was broken. The duke of Nor|mandie with a great armie entered into Heinault, burning and wasting the countrie,The countrie of Heinault inuaded. euen to the gates of Ualenciennes and Quesnoy. And thus were they occupied in those parts, whilest the king of England prepared himselfe with all diligence to returne into Flanders.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The French king being aduertised, that the king of England meant shortlie to returne into Flan|ders with a great power, Gaguin. in purpose to inuade the realme of France on that side, assembled a nauie of foure hundred ships vnder the leading of three expert capteins of the warres by sea,A great nauie prepared by the French king. as sir Hugh Kiriell, sir Peter Bahuchet, and a Geneweis named Barbe Noir, appointing them to the coasts of Flanders to defend the king of England from landing there, if by any meanes they might. These three capteins or ad|merals came and laie with their ships in the hauen of Sluise, for that it was supposed the king of England would arriue there, as his meaning was indeed, wherevpon when his men, ships, and prouisions were once readie in the moneth of Iune, he tooke the sea with two hundred saile, and directing his course to|wards Flanders,The king of England ta|keth the sea. there came vnto him the lord Ro|bert Morley, with the north nauie of England, so that then he had in all about three hundred saile, or (as other saie) two hundred and three score.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The French nauie laie betwixt Sluise and Blanc|bergh, Polydor. Ia. Meir. so that when the king of England approched, either part descried other, & therewith prepared them to battell. The king of England staied, till the sunne which at the first was in his face, came somewhat westward, and so had it vpon his backe, that it should not hinder the sight of his people, and so therewith did set vpon his enimies with great manhood, who likewise verie stoutlie incountered him,The king of England set|teth vpon his enimies. by reason whereof insued a sore and deadlie fight betwixt them. The nauies on both sides were diuided into three bat|tels. On the English part, the earles of Glocester, Northampton and Huntington,Additions to Triuet. who was admerall of the fléet that belonged to the cinque ports, and the lord Robert Morley admerall of the northerne nauie had the guiding of the fore ward, bearing themselues right valiantlie, so that at length the Englishmen hauing the aduantage, not onlie of the sunne, but al|so of the wind and tide, so fortunatlie, that the French fléet was driuen into the streights of the hauen, in such wise that neither the souldiers nor mariners could helpe themselues, in somuch that both heauen, sea, and wind, seemed all to haue conspired against the Frenchmen. And herewith manie ships of Flan|ders ioining themselues with the English fleet,The victo [...] of the English [...]men at the battell of Sluise. in the end the Frenchmen were vanquished, slaine and ta|ken, their ships being also either taken, bowged, or broken.