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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Yee haue heard that the pope by vertue of his pro|uision had giuen the archbishoprike of Yorke vnto maister Robert Halom; but the king was so offen|ded therewith, that the said Robert might in no wise inioy that benefice, and so at length, to satisfie the kings pleasure,Henrie Bow|et archbishop of Yorke. maister Henrie Bowet was trans|lated from Bath vnto Yorke, and maister Robert Halom was made bishop of Salisburie then void by remoouing of Henrie Chichellie to S. Dauids. The lord Henrie prince of Wales this yeare in the sum|mer season besieged the castell of Abiruscwith, and constreined them within to compound with him vn|der certeine conditions for truce;Abiruscwith. but the prince was no sooner from thence departed,Owen Glen|douer. but that Owen Glendouer by subtill craft entered the castell, put out the kéepers, and charging them with treason for con|cluding an agréement without his consent, placed other in that fortresse to defend it to his vse.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the feast of the Assumption of our ladie, that ancient warriour and worthie knight sir Robert Knols departed this life:Sir Robert Knols depar|teth this life. Bermondsey. he was (as before yée haue heard) borne of meane parentage, but growen into such estimation for his valiant prowesse, as he was thought méet to haue the leading of whole armies, and the rule and gouernment of large prouinces. For not long before his deceasse, he being gouernour of Aquitaine, incumbred with age,S. Albons. resigned his office vnto sir Thomas Belfort, a right valiant capteine, and therewith returned into England, where he died at a manour place of his in Norffolke, & from thence brought to London in a litter, with great pompe and much torch light,He was buri|ed in ye White friers. was buried in the church of White friers in Fleetstreet by the ladie Constance his wife, where was doone for him a solemne obsequie, with a great feast, and liberall dole to the poore.

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