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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Also in the beginning of this moneth the citie of London set foorth a thousand soldiors of archers,The Londo|ners set foorth a power into France. har|quebutters, pikes, and bils, which went to Douer, and so passed ouer vnto Calis, to serue the king in his wars on that side the seas.The death of the valiant lord Poi|nings. In the same moneth that valiant capteine sir Thomas Poinings knight, lord Poinings, and the kings lieutenant of his towne and marches of Bullogne departed this life, after he had to his great honor atchiued manie woor|thie enterprises in seruice of his prince against the enimies, so that his death was much lamented. A gentleman vndoubtedlie deseruing to be had in per|petuall memorie: and pitie it is, that diuerse such va|liant feats as he in his life time atchiued, were not committed to writing, to remaine for examples sake to posteritie.