Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time the warres yet continuing betwéene England & France, Prior Iehan (of whom ye haue heard before in the fourth yéere of this kings reigne) great capteine of the French nauie, with his gallies and foists charged with great basilisks and o|ther artillerie, came on the borders of Sussex in the night season,Brighthelm|ston in Sus|sex burnt. at a poore village there called Bright|helmston, & burnt it, taking such goods as he found. But when the people began to gather, by firing the becons, Prior Iehan sounded his trumpet, to call his men aboord, and by that time it was daie. Then cer|teine archers that kept the watch folowed Prior Ie|han to the sea, and shot so fast, that they beat the gallie men from the shore; and wounded manie in the foist, to the which Prior Iehan was constreined to wade and was shot in the face with an arrow,Prior Iehan capteine of the French galies shot into the eie with an arrow. so that he lost one of his eies, and was like to haue died of the hurt: and therefore he offered his image of wax be|fore our ladie at Bullongne, with the English arrow in the face for a miracle.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The lord admerall offended with this proud part of the Frenchmen, in making such attempt on the English coasts,Sir Iohn Wallop in Normandie. sent sir Iohn Wallop to the sea with diuers ships, which sailing to the coasts of Nor|mandie, landed there, and burnt one and twentie vil|lages and townes, with diuerse ships in the hauen of Treaport, Staples, and other where. Men maruelled greatlie at the manfull dooings of sir Iohn Wallop, considering he had not past an eight hundred men, and tooke land there so often. In Iune sir Thomas Louell was sent ouer to Calis with six hundred men to strengthen that towne, and other the fortresses within the English pale, for doubt of anie sudden at|tempt to be made by the Frenchmen; bicause mon|sieur de Pontremie, with a mightie armie and great ordinance was come downe néere to Ard: howbeit be taried not long, but raised his campe within a while after his comming thither, and returned with|out anie more dooing. The French king perceiuing what losses he had susteined by the warres against England;The French king procu|reth the pope to be a meane for peace be|tweene king Henrie and him. and doubting least one euill lucke should still follow in the necke of an other, determined to make sute for peace; and first agr [...]eing with pope Leo, desired him to be a meane also for the procuring of some agréement betwixt him and the king of Eng|land.

¶This pope Leo, of that name the tenth, before his election, cardinall of Medicis, Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag 633. Creation of pope Leo the tenth. bare but seauen and thirtie yeeres of age, which albeit was so much the more maruellous and wonderfull, by how much the election was contrarie to custome; yet the yong car|dinals were the principall causers of it by their in|dustrie, hauing long time afore secretlie agréed a|mongst themselues to create the first pope of their number. The most parts and nations of christen|dome reioised much at this election, euerie one in|terteining an assured expectation of his vertues, as EEBO page image 832 well by the present and gréene memorie of the valor of his late father, as for an vniuersall reputation that went of his owne inclinations and liberalities. To this estimation was ioined a generall opinion of his continencie and life not atteinted, togither with a gladsome hope, that by the example of his father he would be a furtherer of learning, and beare fauor to wits disposed to studie and knowledge. So that vnto these hopes was much helping the manner of the election, being made in his person sincerelie, and without simonie or suspicion of other corruption.