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Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time, Iohn Schakell esquier was set at libertie, the king compounded with him for his prisoner, giuing fiue hundred marks in redie monie, and lands to the value of a hundred marks by yeare. When he should bring foorth his prisoner, and deliuer him to the king, this is to be noted, as a thing verie strange and woonderfull. For when he should appeare, it was knowne to be the verie groome that had ser|ued him in all the time of his trouble, and would ne|uer vtter himselfe what he was before that time, ha|uing serued him as an hired seruant all that while in prison, and out of prison, in danger of life, when his o|ther maister was murthered,A notable ex|ample of a faithfull pri|soner. where, if he would haue vttered himselfe, he might haue beene enterteined in such honorable state, as for a prisoner of his degrée had beene requisit, so that the faithfull loue and assu|red constancie in this noble gentleman was highlie commended and praised, and no lesse maruelled at of all men.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the feast of S. Nicholas, in this third yeare of king Richards reigne, there went to sea an armie of men, that should haue passed ouer into Britaine, to the aid of the duke there, vnder the conduct of sir Iohn Arundell, sir Hugh Caluerlie, sir Thomas Percie, sir William Elmham, sir Thomas Morews, sir Tho|mas Banester, & manie other knights and esquires, too long to rehearse, a sufficient power vndoubted|lie to haue doone a great enterprise: but they were no sooner on the sea, but suddenlie there arose such an hideous tempest of wind and stormes, that they loo|ked presentlie to be all cast awaie, they were scatte|red here and there,The English [...]ame scatte| [...]d by a terri| [...]le tempest. and driuen they wist not whither. The ship wherein sir Iohn Arundell was aboord, chanced to be cast on the coast of Ireland, and there driuen to forsake his ship, that was readie to be bro|ken in péeces by rage of waues, beating it there a|gainst the rocks: he was drowned before he could win to land, in an Ile, neere to the which they had thrust in the ship.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 To the like end came sir Thomas Banester, sir Nicholas Trumpington, and sir Thomas Dale, im|peaching each others, as they leapt foorth of the ship: also one Musard an esquire, a most séemelie perso|nage and a bold; and an other esquier named Deni| [...]ke, being almost out of danger, were fetched awaie by the surges of the sea, and so perished, with manie other. Robert Rust a cunning seaman, belonging to Blacknie in Northfolke, & maister of the ship where|in sir Iohn Arundell was imbarked, was the first that got to land, giuing example to others how to shift for themselues. But when he saw his cheefe cap|teine, the said sir Iohn Arundell got foorth to the sands, and as one thinking himselfe past all danger, to shake his wet garments about him; the said Rust waieng the dangerous state wherein the said sir Iohn Arundell yet stood, came downe, and raught to him his hand, inforsing himselfe to plucke him to the shore: but whilest he tooke care for an other mans safetie, and neglected his owne, he lost his life, and so they both perished togither; for through a mightie bil|low of the raging seas, they were both ouerthrowne, and with returning of the waues backe, drawne into the deepe, so that they could neuer recouer foot-hold a|gaine, but were drowned.

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