Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now, bicause the Englishmen should haue their ioies mingled with some sorrowes, it chanced that the Frenchmen (which about the same time that the kings grandfather departed this life, were waf|ting on the seas) within six or seauen daies after his deceasse, burnt the towne of Rie. Wherevpon, Froissard. Rie burnt by y^ [...] Frenchmen imme|diatlie after the coronation, the earles of Cambridge and Buckingham were sent with a power vnto Do|uer, and the earle of Salisburie vnto Southampton: but in the meane time, to wit, Tho. Wals. The French|men spoile the Ile of Wight. Sir Hugh Tirrell. the one and twentith of August, the Frenchmen entring the Ile of Wight, burnt diuerse townes in the same. And though they were repelled from the castell, by the valiant man|hood of sir Hugh Tirrell capteine thereof, who laid no small number of them on the ground; yet they con|streined the men of the Ile to giue them a thousand marks of siluer to saue the residue of their houses and goods, and so they departed from thence, Froissard. Tho. Walsi. Portsmouth, Dartmouth, & Plimmouth, burnt by the French. sailing still along the costs, and where they saw aduantage, set on land, burning sundrie towns néere to the shore, as Portesmouth, Dartmouth, and Plimmouth.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 418They made countenance also to haue set on South|hampton, if sir Iohn Arundell, brother to the earle of Arundell had not beene readie there with a number of men of armes and archers, by whom the towne was defended, and the enimies chased to their ships. From thence the Frenchmen departed, and sailing towards Douer,Hastings burnt. burnt Hastings; but Winchels [...] they could not win, being valiantlie defended by the abbat of Battell,An ouer|throw giuen by the Frẽch to the Eng|lishmen. and others. After this, they landed one day not far from the abbeie of Lewes, at a place called Rottington, where the prior of Lewes, and two knights, the one named sir Thomas Cheinie, and the other sir Iohn Falleslie, hauing assembled a number of the countrie people, incountred the Frenchmen, but were ouerthrowen; so that there were slaine a|bout an hundred Englishmen; and the prior, with the two knights, and an esquier called Iohn Brokas, were taken prisoners, but yet the Frenchmen lost a great number of their owne men at this conflict, and so with their prisoners retired to their ships and gal|lies, and after returned into France.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Polydor. But now touching the dooings about the new K. You shall vnderstand, that by reason of his yoong yeares, as yet he was not able to gouerne himselfe, and therefore Iohn duke of Lancaster,The duke of Lancaster & the earle of Cambridge appointed protectors. and Edmund earle of Cambridge, with other péeres of the realme, were appointed to haue the administration. He was of good disposition and towardnesse, but his age being readie to incline which way soeuer a man should bend it, those that were appointed to haue the gouerne|ment of his person, did what laie in them now at the first, to keepe him from all maner of light demeanor. But afterwards, when euerie one began to studie more for his owne priuate commoditie, than for the aduancement of the common-wealth, they set open the gates to other, which being readie to corrupt his good nature, by little and little grew familiar with him, and dimming the brightnesse of true honour, with the counterfeit shine of the contrarie, so maske|red his vnderstanding, that in the end they brought him to tract the steps of lewd demeanor, and so were causers both of his and their owne destruction. This séemeth to be touched by C. Okland, who speaking of the death of the old king and the erection of the new, saith of him according to our annales, as followeth:
In Angl. prael.Vndecimum puer hic nondum transegerat annum,Cùm iuuenile caput gessit diademate cinctum.Qui postquam princeps iustis adoleuerat annis.Dicere non facile est quantum distaret auitisMoribus atque animo, fuit hic quàm disparemente,Dissimili ingenio clarae matríque patríque.