Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king replied & said: Herald, giue me the pat|tent of the field, giue it me: and if it be sufficient, I will receiue it, and after saie what thou wilt. The he|rald said he had in commandement not to deliuer it, except he might declare that which he had first to saie. The king said: Thy maister can not giue lawes to vs in France. To conclude he told the herald, that he peraduenture might speake things that his mai|ster would not auouch, and that he had not to deale with him, but with his maister.The herald requireth li|bertie to de|part. The herald then re|quired that he might haue licence to depart: which the king granted. And withall the king commanded that it might be registred what had passed in this be|halfe, for a testimonie that the fault rested not in him in that he receiued not the pattent. The herald like|wise for his discharge, required a copie in writing of that which had passed, and the same was granted.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus far haue I ouerpassed the common bounds of my purpose, in speaking so largelie of this mat|ter of combat, bicause of the rarenesse thereof, chan|cing betwixt two so mightie princes, although it came not to the effect of triall. And now to returne to that which followed further vpon the defiance,The empero [...] defied by the kings of Eng|land and France. de|nounced to the emperor by the two kings of armes, Guien and Clarenceaux. Ye shall vnderstand, that the lords and nobilitie, to the number of seuen hun|dred in whose presence it was giuen, tooke it so offen|siuelie, that drawing foorth their swords, they sware that the same should be reuenged: for otherwise they protested, that the infamie would redound to them and their heires for euer. Herewith the warre was proclamed through all Spaine with baners displaied, in which were painted a red sword, with a burning cresset against the French king and his partakers, but not mentioning the king of England by expresse name. But it was recited in the proclamation, that the king of England had menaced and defied the em|perour in the French kings quarell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then were the English merchants in Spaine at|tached, and their goods put in safetie,English mer|chants staied in Spaine. till it might be knowne how the emperours subiects were ordered in England. Then likewise were all the ships of the emperours subiects here arrested: and in sembla|ble maner all the Englishmen and their goods and ships were arrested by the ladie regent in the low countries. The common people in England much lamented, that warre should arise betwéene the em|perour and the king of England, speciallie bicause the emperours dominions had holpen and reléeued them with graine in time of their necessitie & want. But cheefelie this matter touched merchants which hanted the emperors dominions. Yet at length were those of the low countries set at libertie, and their goods to them deliuered, in fauour of intercourse of EEBO page image 906 merchandize. But forsomuch as the Spaniards were still deteined, the ladie regent also deteined the ships and goods of the English merchants though she set their persons at libertie.