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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The emperor departeth out of England towards Spaine.On the first of Iulie, the emperours nauie came before Hampton, conteining an hundred and foure|score, goodlie ships. Then the emperour tooke leaue of the king, of whome he had manie great gifts, and no|table summes of monie by waie of lone; & so the sixt of Iulie he tooke his ship, and made saile to Spaine, where he arriued in safetie the tenth daie after. The king borrowed of the citie of London twentie thou|sand pounds,The king bo|roweth 20000 pounds of the citie. and deliuered priuie seales for warrant of the repaiment. None were charged but men of good wealth. The like lone was practised through all the realme, not without grudge of manie persons that were called vpon for the same. The earle of Sur|rie hauing wasted the emperour ouer to the coast of Biscaie, vpon his returne finding the wind fauoura|ble, according to his instructions, made to the coast of Britaine, and landing with his people in number seuen thousand, about fiue miles from Morleis, mar|ched thither, and assaulting the towne, wan it.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 For the maister gunner Christopher Morreis hauing there certeine falcons,The maner of the winning of Morleis in Britaine by the earle of Surrie. with the shot of one of them, stroke the locke of the wicket in the gate, so that it flew open: and then the same Christopher and other gentlemen with their souldiers, in the smoke of the gunnes pressed to the gates, and finding the wicket open, entered, and so finallie was the towne of Morleis woone, and put to sacke. The souldiers gained much by the pillage, for the towne was excée|ding rich, and speciallie of linnen cloth. When they had rifled the towne throughlie, and taken their plea|sure of all things therein, the earle caused them by sound of trumpet to resort to their standards, and af|ter they had set fire in the towne, and burned a great part thereof, the earle retreated with his armie to|wards his ships, burning the villages by the waie, and all that night lay on land. On the morrow after they tooke their ships, and when they were bestowed on boord, the earle commanded sixtéene or seuenteene ships small and great, lieng there in the hauen, to be burnt.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the lord admerall had thus woone the towne of Morleis,Diuerse gen|tlemen knigh|ted by the erle of Surrie vpõ the winning of Morleis. he called to him certeine esquiers, and made them knights, as sir Francis Brian, sir An|thonie Browne, sir Richard Cornewall, sir Thomas Moore, sir Giles Huseie, sir Iohn Russell, sir Iohn Reinsford, sir George Cobham, sir Iohn Corne|wallis, sir Edward Rigleie, and diuerse other. After this they continued a while on the coast of Britaine, and disquieted the Britains by entering their ha|uens, and sometimes landing and dooing diuerse dis|pleasures to the inhabitants about the coast. After that the earle had lien a while thus on the coast of Britaine, hée was countermanded by the kings letters, who therevpon brought backe his whole fleet vnto a place called the Cow, vnder the Ile of Wight, and then went on land himselfe, discharging the more part of his people, and leauing the residue with certeine ships vnder the gouernance of the viceadmerall sir William Fitz Williams, to kéepe the seas against the French. Polydor.

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