Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But howsoeuer it chanced, the whole ship by rea|son of the powder was set on fire, & so both the Car|rike and the Regent being grappled togither, so as they could not fall off,The French nauie flieth. were both consumed by fire at that instant. The French nauie perceiuing this, fled in all hast, some to Brest, and some to the Iles ad|ioining. The Englishmen made out boats to helpe them in the Regent: but the fire was so terrible, that in maner no man durst approch; sauing that by the Iames of Hull certeine Frenchmen that could swim were saued. Capteine of this Carrike was sir Piers Morgan, and with him he had in the same nine hundred men: and with sir Thomas Kneuet and sir Iohn Carew were seuen hundred; but all drowned and burnt. The Englishmen that night laie in Berthram baie, for the French fléet was disperst (as ye haue heard.) The lord admerall after this mis|chance thus happened to these two worthie ships, made againe to the sea, and scowred all alongest the coasts of Britaine, Normandie, and Picardie, ta|king manie French ships, and burning such as they could not well bring away with them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The king of England hearing of the losse of the Regent, caused a great ship to be made,The kings ship roiall cal|led Henrie grace de Dieu such a one as the like had neuer béene séene in England, and na|med it Henrie grace de Dieu. The French king about the same time sent to a knight of the Rhodes called Priour Iehan, a Frenchman borne, of the countrie of Guien, requiring him to come by the streicts of Marrocke into Britaine: the which he did, bringing with him thrée gallies of force, with diuerse foists and row-gallies, so well ordin [...] and trimmed, as the like had not beene séene in these parties before his comming. He had laine on the coasts of Barbarie to defend certeine of the religion,A parlement wherein it was conclu|ded that king Henrie in pro|per person should inuade France. as they came from Tripolie. This yeare in the moneth of Nouember the king called his high court of parlement, in the which it was concluded, that the king himselfe in per|son with an armie roiall shuld inuade France; wher|vpon notice being giuen to such as shuld attend, they made their purueiance with all diligence that might be. Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 897. Great sub|sidie. In this parlement was granted to the king tws fiftéens, and foure demies; and head monie, of euerie duke ten markes, an earle fiue pounds, a lord foure pounds, a knight foure marks, & euerie man rated at right hundred pounds in goods, to paie foure marks, and so after that rate, till him that was valued at fortie shillings, paied twelue pence, and euerie man that tooke fortie shillings wages twelue pence, and euerie man and woman of fiftéene yeares or vp|ward foure pence.Bow stéeple builded. The steeple and lanterne of Bow church in Cheape was this yeare finished. By fire this yeare a great part of the kings palace of West|minster, and the chappell in the Tower of London,Kings palace at Westmin|ster burned. and manie other places in England were burned. In Aprill, the king sent a great nauie of twelue EEBO page image 816 thousand men to the sea. On Maie euen, Edmund de la Poole was beheaded on the Tower hill,Edmund de la Poole be|h [...]aded. his bro|ther Richard was after slaine in France.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this parlement was ended, the king kept a solemne Christmasse at Gréenwich, with danses and mummeries in most princelie maner. And on the Twelfe daie at night came into the hall a mount, called the rich mount. F [...]l. Hall in [...]. 8. fol. xxij. [...] descrip|t [...]n of a rich mount being [...] Christmasse [...]. The mount was set full of rich flowers of silke, and especiallie full of broome slips full of cods, the branches were gréene sattin, and the flowers flat gold of damaske, which signified Plan|tagenet. On the top stood a goodlie beacon giuing light, round about the beacon sat the king and fiue o|ther, all in cotes and caps of right crimsin veluet, embrodered with flat gold of damaske, their cotes set full of spangles of gold. And foure woodhouses drew the mount till it came before the quéene, and then the king and his companie descended and dan|sed. Then suddenlie the mount opened, and out came six ladies all in crimsin sattin and plunket, embrode|red with gold and pearle, with French hoods on their heads, and they dansed alone. Then the lords of the mount tooke the ladies and dansed togither: and the ladies reentered, and the mount closed, and so was conueied out of the hall. Then the king shifted him, and came to the queene, and sat at the banket which was verie sumptuous.