Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About the same time, Polydor. the earle of Kildare being restored to the cardinals fauour, and taking to wife the ladie Elizabeth Graie,The earle of Kildare resto|red to his of|fice of deputi|ship in Irelãd. was sent ouer againe in|to Ireland to occupie his former office, whereby the assistance of his faithfull friend Hugh Hinke arch|bishop of Dublin, and chancellour of that land, hee brought the countrie into reasonable good order, so far as the rebellious dooings of the wild Irish would permit. In this meane while, Edw. Hall. the warre was earnest|lie pursued betweene England & France, & England and Scotland, insomuch that each part did what in them lay to hurt other. On the borders toward Scot|land lay the earle of Surrie high admerall of Eng|land, and the marques Dorset, with his brethren, sir William Compton, & sir William Kingston, with diuerse other knights and esquiers sent to them by the king,Scotland sore spoiled. which dailie inuaded the realme of Scot|land, and threw downe the castell of Wederborne, the castell of west Nesgate, the castell of Blackater, the tower of Mackwalles, the tower of east Nesgate, & manie other, and burnt to the number of thirtie and seuen villages, and haried the countrie from the east marches to the west, and neuer had skirmish.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 For the Scots, albeit they shewed themselues in plumps, waiting some aduantage, they durst not yet approch to the maine battell of the Englishmen, so that in all this iournie there went but few Eng|lishmen lost. When the lords perceiued that the Scots ment not to make anie inuasion into England this yeare, they tooke order for the fortifieng of the fron|tiers, and so returned. It was thought that the cardi|nall perceiuing in what fauour sir William Comp|ton was with the king, Polydor. and doubting least the same might diminish his authoritie, deuised to send him thus into the warres against the Scots. For the said sir William could not well brooke the cardinals pre|sumption, in taking vpon him so highlie, to the dero|gation of the kings supreme gouernement, and ther|fore the cardinall in his absence thought to woorke him out of fauour: but it would not be. For shortlie after was sir William Compton called home to the court againe,

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The Frenchmen burned a ship fraught with stone in the hauen of Calis,The French|men meaning to destroy Ca|lis hauen are disapproued by missing the chanell. vpon hope to haue destroied the hauen; but they missed the chanell in bringing in the ship, and so after that the ship was consumed with fire, the stones were recouered out of the water, and brought into Calis, which serued the Englishmen to good vse. Diuerse enterprises were atchiued be|twixt them of the garrisons French and English in those marches. In Iulie the lord Sands treasuror of Calis, with other capteins & souldiors, to the number of twelue hundred, entered into the confines of their enimies, and came before Bullongne, where they had a great skirmish, & put their enimies to the woorse:A rode [...] into the [...] ground. and after marching into the countrie, tooke diuerse chur|ches and other places which the Frenchmen had for|tified, as the church of Odersall, the steeple of Oding|ham, and the castell of Hardingham, and so after they had beene within the enimies countrie almost two nights and two daies, they came backe to Calis, ha|uing not lost past a dozen of their men.