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Compare 1577 edition: 1 In the same summer, the king with the queene went abroad in progresse,The king & quéene in progresse. visiting in their waie the rich abbeis of the realme, as Burie, Thetford, Nor|wich, & other; going about a great part of the realme. And when these newes came to him from the bishop of Norwich, he was at Dauentrie in Northampton|shire, and being the same time at supper, he put the ta|ble from him, and rising with all hast, got him to hors|backe, and rode in post that night, changing horsse diuerse times, with such spéed that he came to S. Al|bons about midnight, and making no staie there lon|ger than he had borowed the abbats gelding, hasted foorth till he came to Westminster: so that it appea|red he would neuer haue rested till he had passed the sea, and giuen battell to the Frenchmen. But after his comming to Westminster, wearied with that ha|stie iournie, he got him to bed, and liked so well of ease,A great hea [...] soone cooled. that he thought good to send a lieutenant in his stead to passe the seas, to deliuer the bishop from dan|ger of his enimies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon was the duke of Lancaster sent for, that he might with such power as was readie to passe the seas, go ouer with the same, and giue battell to the French king: but he protracted time, till the respit granted to the bishop to make answer was expired, and so the bishop when he saw no succour come foorth of England, raced the towne as the couenant was: but monie he would not or did not receiue, bicause he thought in so dooing he should offend the councell. At his comming backe into England, he found the duke of Lancaster at the sea side with a great power of men readie to haue come ouer:The bishop of Norwich re|turned into England [...] of Flanders. although some thought that he deferred time of purpose, for that he misliked of the bishops whole enterprise; and now bi|cause it had thus quailed, he blamed the bishop for his euill gouernement therein: but sir Hugh Caluerlie he reteined with him a time, dooing him all honour, by reason of the old approoued valiancie, that had béene euer found in him. And this was the end of the bishop of Norwich his iournie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Scots in the meane while sate not still, but made roades into England,Warke castell burnt by the Scots. tooke and burnt the ca|stell of Warke. Moreouer, whilest the siege laie be|fore Ypres, the Frenchmen armed certeine vessels, and sent them to the sea, namelie fiue balengers, as well to intercept such as should passe betwéene Eng|land EEBO page image 445 and Flanders, as also to stop such as were ap|pointed to go ouer into Gascoine, that were soldiers also of the croisie, appointed thither vnder the lea|ding of the lord Britrigale de la Bret, and certeine others. When they of Portesmouth vnderstood that these fiue ships were abroad, they made foorth to the sea, and meeting with their aduersaries, fought with them a sore & cruell battell, and in the end slue all the enimies, nine excepted, and tooke all their vessels. An other fleet of Englishmen tooke eight French ships,Diuerse French ships taken by the Englishmen. which had aboord 1500 tuns of good wines, that com|forted the Englishmen greatlie.

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