Compare 1577 edition: 1 This yeare king Richard holding his Christmasse at Eltham,The king of Armeni [...] cõ|meth into England [...] aid against the Turks. thither came to him Leo king of Arme|nia, whose countrie and realme being in danger to be conquered of the Turks, he was come into those west parts of christendome for aid and succour at the hands of the christian princes here. The king honora|blie receiued him, and after he had taken counsell touching his request, he gaue him great summes of monie and other rich gifts, with a stipend (as some write) of a thousand pounds yearely to be paid to him during his life. Thom. Wals. After he had remained here two moneths space, he tooke leaue of the king and depar|ted. The chiefest point of his errand was, to haue pro|cured a peace betwixt the two kings of England and France, but destinie would not permit so good a pur|pose to take effect: for the hatred which either nation bare to other, would not suffer their loftie minds to yeeld in any one point, further than seemed good in their owne opinions.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this ninth yeare of king Richard (though by other writers it should séeme to be rather in the yeare following) the duke of Lancaster with a great pow|er of men of warre went into Spaine, Thom. [...] Froissard. Ia. Meir. and lead with him thither his wife the ladie Constance,The duke [...] Lancaster goeth into Spaine [...] an armie. & a daugh|ter which he had by hir named Katharine, and two o|ther daughters which he had by his former wife. He EEBO page image 449 had béene about the preparing of an armie, and all furniture necessarie for this iournie two or thrée yéeres before, and therefore hauing now seauen gal|lies and eightéene ships sent to him out of Portin|gale (which arriued at Bristow) he caused all such ves|sels as he had prouided to resort likewise thither, where making his generall assemblie, when all his men of warre were come togither, he bestowed them aboord, with all their horsses and purueiances, and causing sailes to be hoissed vp, set forward on his long wished iournie. This was in the moneth of Maie, when the seas were calme, the aire swéet, and the winds pleasant and agréeable to his purpose. He appointed for admerall of his whole fléet sir Thomas Percie; and sir Iohn Holland that was after created earle of Huntington and had married one of his daughters was ordeined constable of the hoast; and sir Thomas Moreaux hauing married his bastard daughter was one of his marshals.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 There were that attended him in this iournie ma|nie other lords and knights of honor, as the lord Lu|cie, the lord Talbot, the lord Basset, the lord Wil|loughbie, the lord Fitz Walter, the lord Poinings, the lord Bradston, the lord of Põmiers a Gascoigne, the lord Yonne fitz Warren, Henrie lord Beau|mont, William lord Beauchampe, sir Richard Bur|lie that was another of the marshals of the armie, sir Hugh Spenser, sir William Windsore, sir Iohn Daubreticourt, sir Hugh Hastings, sir William Farrington, sir Thomas Tresham, sir Mauburin de Liniers, sir Thomas Worcester, sir Iohn Sow|trie, sir Robert Clinton, sir Philip Tirrell, sir Lewes Rochester, Huguelin Caluerlie, Dauid Holgraue, Thomas Alerie, Hobequin Beaucester, and diuerse other: they were in all to the number of fifteene hun|dred men of armes, whereof a thousand at the least were knights and esquiers, besides foure thousand archers, and other men of warre, so perfectlie appoin|ted and arraied, as could be thought méet and conue|nient. Of this chosen companie attendant vpon the duke of Lancaster, & of this his voiage into Spaine, the said C. Okland speaketh no lesse trulie & accor|ding to the report of our annales, than honorablie:
In Angl. praelij.Ocyus instructa pro bello classe futuro,Milite stipatus generoso traijcit aequorFluctisonum, cum vxore pia natís duabus, &c.