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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The twentith of Iulie, the whole nauie of the Eng|lishmen made out,The Marie Rose drowned by negligence. & purposed to set on the French|men, but in setting forward, thorough too much fol|lie, one of the kings ships called the Marie Rose was drowned in the middest of the hauen, by reason that she was ouerladen with ordinance, and had the ports left open, which were verie low, and the great artillerie vnbreeched; so that when the ship should turne, the water entered, and suddenlie she suncke. In hir was sir George Carew knight and foure hundred soldiours vnder his guiding. There escaped not past fortie persons of all the whole number. On the morrow after about two thousand of the French|men landed in the Ile of Wight,Frenchmen distressed in the Ile of Wight. where one of their chiefe capteins named le cheualier Daux, a Prouen|cois was slaine with manie other, and the residue with losse and shame driuen backe againe to their gallies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king perceiuing the great Armada of the Frenchmen to approch, caused the beacons to be fi|red, and by letters sent into Hamptonshire, Sum|mersetshire, Wiltshire, and into diuerse other coun|tries adioining, gaue knowledge to such as were ap|pointed to be readie for that purpose, to come with all spéed to incounter the enimies. Wherevpon they repaired to his presence in great numbers well fur|nished with armor, weapon, vittels, and all other things necessarie, so that the Ile was garnished, and all the frontiers alongest the coasts fortified with ex|céeding great multitudes of men. The French cap|teins hauing knowledge by certeine fishermen, whom they tooke, that the king was present, & so huge a power readie to resist them, they disanchored and drew along the coast of Sussex, and a small number of them landed againe in Sussex, of whome few re|turned to their ships: for diuerse gentlemen of the countrie, as sir Nicholas Pelham, and others, with such power as was raised, vpon the sudden, tooke them vp by the waie and quickelie distressed them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 When they had searched euerie where by the coast, and saw men still readie to receiue them with bat|tell, they turned sterne, and so got them home againe without anie act atchiued woorthie to be mentioned. The number of the Frenchmen was great,The number [...] the French [...]. so that diuerse of them that were taken prisoners in the Ile of Wight, and in Sussex, did report that they were thrée score thousand. The French king aduertised the emperor most vntrulie by letters, that his armie had gotten the Ile of Wight with the ports of Ham|ton, and Portesmouth, and diuerse other places. In August following,The earle of Hertford fo [...]|ra [...]th the middle mar|ches of Scot|land. the earle of Hertford entered a|gaine into Scotland with twelue thousand men, and destroied all the townes in the middle marches, bur|ned Coldingham abbeie, and passed to the west mar|ches, sore annoieng and indamaging the Scots, and yet neither they, nor the Frenchmen that were sent into Scotland this yeare to the aid of the Scots, vn|der the leading of monsieur de Lorges, Montgome|rie his father, durst once come foorth into the field to incounter with him.

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