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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The vessell of amitie betwéene the king of Eng|gland & the French being first broched by this popes letters, the French king by an herald at armes sent to the king of England, requiring of him a safe con|duct for his ambassadors, which should come to in|treat for a peace and attonement to be concluded be|twixt them and their realmes. Upon grant obteined thereof, the French king sent a commission with the president of Rome and others, to intreat of peace and aliance betwixt both the princes. And moreouer, bi|cause they vnderstood that the mariage was broken betwéene the prince of Castile and the ladie Marie,A mariage concluded. they desired that the said ladie might be ioined in mariage with the French king, offering a great dowrie and suerties for the same. So much was offe|red, that the king mooued by his councell, and name|lie by Woolsie the bishop of Lincolne, consented vp|on condition, that if the French king died, then [...]he should (if it stood with hir pleasure) returne into Eng|land againe with all hir dowrie and riches.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After that they were accorded vpon a full peace, and that the French king should marrie this yoong ladie, the indentures were drawen, ingrossed,A peace con|cluded be|tweene Eng|land & [...] & sea|led, and peace therevpon proclamed the seuenth daie of August; & the king in presence of the French am|bassadors was sworne to kéepe the same: and like|wise there was an ambassage sent out of England to see the French king sweare the same. The dowrie that was assigned vnto the bride to be receiued after hir husbands deceasse, Polydor. if she suruiued him, was na|med to be 32000 crownes of yearelie reuenues, & to be receiued out of certeine lands assigned foorth therefore during all hir naturall life. And moreouer, it was further agreed & couenanted, that the French king should content and paie yearelie vnto king Henrie, during the space of fiue yeares, the summe of one hundred thousand crownes.The ladie Marie aff [...] to K. Lewes of France. By conclusion of this peace was the duke of Longuile with the other prisoners deliuered, paieng their ransoms, and the said duke affied the ladie Marie in the name of his maister king Lewes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 In September following, the said ladie was con|ueied to Douer by the king hir brother & the queene, and on the second daie of October she was shipped, and such as were appointed to giue their attendance on hir, as the duke of Norffolke, the marquesse Dor|set, the bishop of Durham, the earle of Surreie, the lord de la Ware, the lord Berners, the lord Montea|gle, the foure brethren of the said marques, sir Mau|rice Berklie, sir Iohn Pechie, sir William Sands, sir Thomas Bulleine, sir Iohn Car, and manie other knights, esquiers, gentlemen and ladies. They had not sailed past a quarter of the sea, but that the wind arose and seuered the ships, driuing some of them to Calis, some into Flanders, and hir ship with great difficultie was brought to Bullen not without great ieopardie at the entering of the hauen, for the mai|ster ran the ship hard on shore.

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