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You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 13 of 24: Henrie the fourth, cousine germane to Richard the second, latelie depriued.
Snippet: 142 of 197 (1587, Volume 6, p. 533)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The duke of Orleance hauing leuied a mightie ar|mie, The duke of Orleance be|s [...]geth towns in Gascoigne. had besieged the townes of Burge and Blaie in Gascoigne, meaning with force to win the same; but so it fortuned, that for the space of eight wéekes togi|ther, there passed not one daie without tempest of raine, snow, and haile, mixed with winds and light|nings, which killed aswell men as cattell, by reason whereof he lost (as was reported) six thousand men, so that he was constreined to breake vp his camps from before both those townes, and to get him awaie with dishonor, for all his brags and boasts made at his first comming thither.Henrie Paie [...] valiant sea man. The sametime, Henrie Paie and certeine other persons of the fiue ports, with fiftéene ships, tooke an hundred and twentie poises, which laie at anchor in and about the coast of Britaine, laden with iron, salt, oile, & Ro [...]hell wines.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 13 of 24: Henrie the fourth, cousine germane to Richard the second, latelie depriued.
Snippet: 143 of 197 (1587, Volume 6, p. 533)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this season also billes were set vp in diuerse places of London; and on the doore of Paules church, in which was conteined,k. Richard still aliue as was [...]eigned. that king Richard being a|line and in health, would come shortlie with great magnificence & power to recouer againe his king|dome but the contriuer of this deuise was quicklie found out, apprehended, and punished according to his demerits. ¶ The citie of London this yeare in the summer was so infected with pestilent mortali|tie, that the king durst not repaire thither, nor come neere to it. Whervpon he being at the castell of Leeds in Kent, and departing from thence, tooke ship at Quinburgh in the Ile of Shepie to saile ouer vnto Lée in Essex, and so to go to P [...]aschie, there to passe the time till the mortalitie was ceassed.

You are here: 1587 > Volume 6 > Body Text: Section 13 of 24: Henrie the fourth, cousine germane to Richard the second, latelie depriued.
Snippet: 144 of 197 (1587, Volume 6, p. 533)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 As he was vpon the sea, certeine French pirats which laie lurking at the Thames mouth to watch for some preie,The king in danger to be taken by French pi|rats. got knowledge by some meanes (as was supposed) of the kings passage, and therevpon as he was in the middest of his course, they entred among his fléet, and tooke foure vessels next to the kings ship, and in one of the same vessels sir Thomas Rampston the kings vicechamberlaine,Sir Thomas Rampston ta|ken. with all his chamber stuffe and apparell. They followed the king so néere, that if his ship had not béene swift, he had landed sooner in France than in Essex: but such was his good hap,

The king es|caped through swiftnesse of his ship.

The lord Ca|mois put in blame.

that he escaped and arriued at his ap|pointed port. The lord Camois, that was comman|ded with certeine ships of warre to waft the king o|uer (whether the wind turned so that he could not kéepe his direct course, or that his ship was but a slug) ran so far in the kings displeasure, that he was attached & indited, for that (as was surmized against him) he had practised with the Frenchmen, that the king might by them haue béene taken in his passage.

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