Compare 1577 edition: 1 The descrip|tion of the inclosure.This inclosure or wall of wood was twentie foot in height, and conteined in length or in compasse, when it was set vp, three thousand pases, and at the end of euerie twelue pases stood a turret able to receiue ten men, that was higher than the rest of the wall by ten foot at the least. There were appointed to haue passed ouer in those ships twentie thousand men of armes, Thom. Wals. twentie thousand crosbowes, and twentie thousand other men of warre. To haue séene the great apparell, furniture and prouision, the shipping, trussing, bearing, and carrieng to and fro of things needfull for this iournie, a man might haue meruel|led; for suerlie the like hath sildome beene remem|bred. Tho. Walsi. All that was doone there on that side the sea by the Frenchmen, was notified into England, so that the Frenchmen were not more occupied to prepare themselues to inuade England, than the English|men were to make themselues readie to defend their countrie from all danger of enimies;The prouisi|on of y^e Eng|lishmen to resist y^e great power of Frenchmen. so that euerie hauen towne, especiallie alongst the west, south, and eastcoasts, were kept and warded with notable num|bers of armed men and archers.

¶Notwithstanding the great confidence which the French king reposed in the fortification which he had imbarked, Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knigh|ton canon of Leicester abbeie. thinking thereby to haue wrought great woonders, to the discomfiture of the English: yet (contrarie to his expectation) it so fortuned, that a|bout Michaelmas, the lord William Beauchampe capteine of Calis tooke two ships; whereof one was loden with a péece of the said inclosure or wall of wood, and in the same ship was the maister carpen|ter of the inclosure, being an Englishman borne, but banished his countrie before that time for some of|fense. He also tooke another ship, wherein were en|gins, guns, gunpowder & other instruments of war. Not long after this, two more ships were taken like|wise, whose burthen was parcels of the foresaid frame or inclosure: so that three ships were met withall and seized vpon, each of them loden with one kind of stuffe. Whereof king Richard hearing, he caused the said inclosure to be reared and set vp about Winchelsie towne. In the meane while, namelie in September, the foresaid armie came into Flanders, and arriued at the hauen of Sluis, intending to make their progresse into England: but by prolong|ing of the time there, they were driuen to great dis|tresse and want of vittels: for it was reported that a loafe of bread, sold in England for a penie, was sold there for eightéene pence; and a hens eg for a pe|nie: so that in the end of Nouember they returned to France, missing their purpose as much as if they had neuer ment it.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 There were readie within the realme at that sea|son, in one part and other 100000 archers, and ten thousand men of armes, besides those that were gone into Spaine with the duke of Lancaster. All this preparation lasted for the more part of the sum|mer, euen till the beginning of winter: and still the French king that was come downe into Flanders, staied for the comming of his vncle the duke of Ber|rie: who at length in the moneth of Nouember came to Sluis, hauing protracted time, of purpose, that he might by the excuse of winter, cause this ior|nie to be put off till another season. Wherin he shew|ed more wit than all the councellors which the French king had about him: for if he had not politikelie shif|ted off the matter, the king had landed here in Eng|land, to the great danger of his person and losse of his people. And yet if we shall beléeue writers that liued in those daies, by reason of the brute that was spred through the realme, of that huge preparation which the French king made to inuade this land, no small feare entered into the harts of manie, namelie of the Londoners,The Londo|ners speciallie afraid of the Frẽch forces. who (as if the enimies had beene alredie landed) bestirred them, in making what prouision they might for their defense, though it séemed by their manner of dooings, they stood in doubt least the whole realme had not béene able to make sufficient resis|tance.