Compare 1577 edition: 1 Prior Iehan also laie still in Blanke sable baie, and plucked his gallies to the shore, setting his basi|liskes and other ordinance in the mouth of the baie, which baie was bulworked on euerie side, that by water it was not possible to be woone. The lord ad|merall perceiuing the French nauie thus to lie in feare,The lord ad|merall would haue the king present in per|son at the en|counter, and is rebuked. wrote to the king to come thither in person, and to haue the honour of so high an enterprise: which writing the kings councell nothing allowed, for put|ting the king in ieopardie vpon the chance of the sea. Wherefore the king wrote to him sharplie againe, commanding him to accomplish that which appertei|ned to his duetie: which caused him to aduenture things further than wisedome would he should (as after yée shall heare) to his vtter vndooing and ca|sting awaie, God hauing ordeined the means by his prouidence, which the pagans implied (though wan|ting the light of grace) in the name of destinie, of them counted ineuitable. Guic. pag 32 [...] [A destinie lamentable considering the qualitie of the person, with the ma|ner of his dieng. Wherein although manie vainlie dispute, that fortune led him to so miserable an acci|dent: yet if we will lift vp our considerations to God, we shall find that he hath reserued such a prero|gatiue ouer all things which he hath created, that to him onelie belongeth the authoritie to dispose all things by the same power wherewith he hath created them of nothing.] And yet the foolish world (doting in blind ignorance, but pretending a singular in|sight in matters of secrecie) blusheth not to talke or rather to asseuere, casualtie, chancemedlie, misfor|tune, and such like foolish imaginations: whereas (in|déed) the prouidence of God compasseth all things whatsoeuer, for nothing can be priuileged from the amplenesse of the same.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Prior Iehan kéeping him still within his hold, Anno Reg. 5. as a prisoner in a dungeon, did yet sometime send out his small foists to make a shew before the Eng|lish nauie, which chased them to the baie. But bicause the English ships were mightie vessels, they could not enter the baie: and therefore the lord admerall caused certeine boats to be manned foorth, which tooke one of the best foists that Prior Iehan had, and that with great danger: for the gallies and bulworks shot so freshlie all at one instant, that it was mar|uell how the Englishmen escaped. The lord admerall perceiuing that the Frenchmen would not come a|broad, called a councell, wherein it was determined,A consultati [...] about the as|saulting of Prior Ieh [...] that first they would assaile Prior Iehan and his gal|lies lieng in Blanke sable baie, and after to set on the residue of the French fléet in the hauen of Brest. Then first it was appointed, that the lord Ferrers, sir Stephan Bull, and other, should go ala [...]d with a conueuient number to assault the bulworkes, while the admerall entered with row barges and little gallies into the baie, and so should the Frenchmen be assailed both by water and land.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The lord admerall by the counsell of a Spanish knight called sir Alfonse Charant, affirming that he might enter the baie with little ieopardie, called to him William Fitz Williams, William Cooke, Iohn Colleie, and sir Wolstan Browne, as his chéefe and most trustie fréends, making them priuie to his intent; which was to take on him the whole en|terprise, with their assistance. And so on S. Markes daie, which is the fiue and twentith of Aprill, the said admerall put himselfe in a small row barge, appoin|ting thrée other small rowing ships, and his owne ship bote to attend him;The adme|rall roweth into the baie where the Prior laie. and therewith vpon a sud|den rowed into the baie, where Prior Iehan had moored vp his gallies iust to the ground: which gal|lies with the bulworkes on the land, shot so terriblie, that they that followed were afraid. But the adme|rall passed forward, & as soone as he came to the gal|lies, he entered & droue out the Frenchmen. Willi|am Fitz Williams within his ship was sore hurt with a quarell. The baie was shallow, and the other ships could not enter, for the tide was spent.