Compare 1577 edition: 1 This lord (vpon knowledge had of king Edwards arriuall there in the hauen, and in what danger he stood by reason of the Easterlings) commanded them not to be so hardie as once to meddle with anie Eng|lishmen, being both the dukes fréends and alies. Then did king Edward & all his companie come on land. Who after they had beene well refreshed & gent|lie comforted by the lord Gronture, they were by him brought to the Hagh, a rich towne in Holland, where they remained a while, hauing all things necessarie ministred to them by order of the duke of Burgog|nie, sent vnto the lord Gronture, immediatlie vpon certificat from the said lord Gronture of king Ed|wards arriuall. [Héere we sée in what perplexities king Edward and his retinue were, partlie by eni|mies at home in his owne countrie, whose hands he was constreined to flée from by the helpe of the sea; partlie also by aduersaries abroad, seeking opportuni|tie to offer him not the incounter onelie, but the o|uerthrow. And suerly, had not good fortune fauoured him, in preparing readie meanes for him to auoid those imminent dangers; he had doubtlesse fallen a|mong the weapons of his owne countrimen, and so EEBO page image 676 neuer haue feared forren force: but in escaping both the one and the other, euen with shift of so spéedie ex|pedition, it is a note (if it be well looked into) of happi|nesse, if anie happinesse may be in preseruation from ruine and reproch.]

Edw. Hall. fol. ccix. Now let all Englishmen (saith Edward Hall) con|sider (as before is rehearsed) what profit, what com|moditie, and what helpe in distresse, the mariage of the ladie Margaret, king Edwards sister to the duke Charles, did to him in his extreame necessitie; and but by that meane vncurable extremitie: for his alies and confederats in Castile and Arragon were too far from him, either speedilie to flie to, or shortlie to come fro with anie aid or armie. The French king was his extreme enimie, and freend to king Henrie, for whose cause in the king of Scots (for all the leage betwéene them) he did put little confidence and lesse trust. The states and all Eastland were with him at open war, and yet by this marriage, God prouided him a place to flie to, both for refuge and reléefe.

[But for the further and cleerer explanation of these stratagems, Abr. Flem. or rather ciuill tumults, it shall not be amisse to insert in this place (si [...]h I cannot hit vp|on one more conuenient) a verie good note or additi|on receiued from the hands of maister Iohn Hooker chamberlaine of Excester; the contents whereof are of such qualitie, that they cannot stand in concur|rence with anie matter introduced within the com|passe of the ninth yeare of this kings reigne (as he had quoted it) and therfore I thought it méet to trans|fer the same to this tenth yeare; considering that some part of the matter by him largelie touched, is briefelie in the premisses alreadie remembred.]