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Compare 1577 edition: 1 There were sent to the sea, vnder conduct of sir William Fitz Williams viceadmerall,The nauie [...]. twentie & eight goodlie ships well manned and trimmed for the warres, & seuen other ships were sent toward Scot|land, which entered the Forth, and proffered to enter the Scotish ships that laie in the hauens: but the Scots ran their ships aland, and the Englishmen followed with boats, landed, and set the ships on fire, & at Leith tooke certeine prisoners, which they brought into England; and still the kings great nauie kept the narrow seas: for then was neither peace betwixt England and France, nor open warres. The king vnderstanding that the emperor would come to Ca|lis, so to passe into England, as he went towards Spaine, appointed the lord marquesse Dorset to go to Calis, there to receiue him, and likewise the lord cardinall was appointed to receiue him at Do|uer.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Cardinall [...] his [...] when he receiued the emperour at Douer.The cardinall taking his iournie forward on the twentith of Maie, rode through London, accompa|nied with two earles, six and thirtie knights, and an hundred gentlemen, eight bishops, ten abbats, thir|tie chapleins, all in veluet and sattin, and yeomen se|uen hundred. The marquesse Dorset was gone ouer before vnto Calis: and the fiue and twentith of Maie being sundaie,The marques Dorset recei|ueth the em|per [...]ur at Graueling. the said marquesse, with the bishop of Chichester, the lord de la Ware, and diuerse other at the water of Graueling, receiued the emperour in the name of the king of England, and with all ho|nour brought him to Calis, where he was receiued with procession, by the lord Bernes lieutenant of the towne, with the maior and merchants of the Staple, in the best maner that might be deuised.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The emperor [...] at [...].On the mondaie he tooke ship at Calis, and lan|ded at Douer, where the cardinall with thrée hundred lords, knights, and gentlemen of England was rea|die to receiue him, and with all honour that might be, brought him to the castell, where he was lodged. On wednesdaie, being the Ascension éeuen, the king came to Douer, and there with great ioy and glad|nesse, the emperour and he met. On the fridaie in the after noone they departed from Douer, & came that night to Canturburie, so from thence by easie iour|nies to Gréenewich, where she quéene receiued hir nephue with all the ioy that might be. Here the empe|rour taried certeine daies in great solace and plea|sure; and the more to honor his presence,Iustes and iournies at Gréenwich. roiall iustes and tourneies were appointed, the which were furni|shed in most triumphant maner: the king, and the earle of Deuonshire, and ten aids with them, kéeping the place against the duke of Suffolke: the marques Dorset, and other ten aids vpon their part.

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