Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time the duke of Britaine retur|ning into his countrie, vnder the conduct of sir Tho|mas Percie and sir Hugh Caluerlie, landed at a ha|uen not far from saint Malo, the fourth day of Au|gust, being receiued with vnspeakeable ioy of the Britaines, as well lords as commons, so that the lo|uing harts which they bare towards him, might well appeare,The duke of Britaine re|stored to his dukedome. although the loue which he bare to the king of England had caused his subiects, in fauor of France, to kéepe him manie yeares foorth of his dukedome as a banished prince, but at length, they being ouer|come with irkesomnesse of his long absence, with generall consents sent for him home, so that there were but few of the British nobilitie that withdrew their dutifull obedience from him, and those were on|lie such as firmelie linked in seruice with the French king, were loth to forgo such roomes and dignities as vnder him they inioied; namelie, the constable of France, sir Berthram de Cleaquin, the lord Clisson, the lord de Rohen, and the lord Rochfort, and certeine others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The lord de la Uall amongst other, came to him (as we find in Thomas Walsingham) offering him his seruice as well as the residue. At his landing, he was likelie to haue lost all such furniture, as well of vit|tels, apparell, hangings, bedding, armour, and other things, which either he or his traine had brought with them. For the French gallies espieng their time, im|mediatlie as he and his companie were set on land, before the ships in which the said furniture was fraught, could enter the hauen, which was somewhat streight and narrow, came vpon them, and had them at such aduantage,Sir Hugh Caluerlie. that if sir Hugh Caluerlie with his archers had not caused the master of his ship, e|uen against his will to returne againe to the rescue, the gallies had taken and gone awaie with the other ships; but through the manfull prowes of sir Hugh, the gallies were repelled, & the ships saued: for accor|ding to his woonted valiancie he would not returne, till he saw all other in safetie, & then defending him|selfe so well as he might, withdrew into the hauen, and landed safelie with the residue.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time was an hainous murther committed in London, of a merchant Genowes,An hainous murther of [...] merchant stranger. whom certeine English merchants vpon spite and enuie, which they bare towards him, caused to be slaine one euening in the stréet before his own gates. The cause that mooued the merchants so to procure his death was, for that he vndertooke to furnish this land, hauing the staple allowed him at Southhamp|ton, of all such wares as came foorth of Leuant, so plentifullie as was to be had in any place in all the west parts of christendome.Great [...] in the north countrie. In the summer of this yeare, a greeuous mortalitie afflicted the north parts of this land, so that the countrie became almost deso|late. And to the increase of that miserie,Great [...] by the [...] in the death time. the Scots thinking the time to serue th [...]ir turne, inuaded the borders, and most cruellie harried, robbed, and spoiled EEBO page image 423 the same, not letting passe any part, of most cruell murthering of the people that were left aliue, and not made awaie by that sore contagious sicknesse. The number of cattell was infinite which they droue out of the land with them, not sparing heards of swine which they tooke at this time, where they ne|uer medled with that kind of cattell before that pre|sent.