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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The foure and twentith of Aprill Thomas Staf|ford, second sonne to the lord Stafford, with other to the number of two and thirtie persons, comming forth of France by sea, arriued at Scarborough in Yorkeshire, where they tooke the castell, and held the same two daies, and then were taken without ef|fusion of bloud by the earle of Westmerland. The said Stafford and Richard Sanders, otherwise cal|led capteine Sanders,Stafford and others com|mitted to the tower, and af|ter executed. with three or foure others, of the which one was a Frenchman, were sent vp to London, & there committed to prison in the tower. The said Stafford and foure others were arreigned and condemned. Wherevpon the eight and twentith of Maie, being fridaie, the said Stafford was behea|ded on the tower hill; and on the morrow thrée of his companie, as Strellie, Bradford, and Proctor, were drawen from the tower to Tiborne, and there execu|ted. Their heads were set ouer the bridge, and their quarters ouer the gates about the same citie. Cap|teine Sanders had his pardon, and so escaped. The first of Maie Thomas Persie was made knight,Thomas Persie crea|ted earle of Northum|berland. and after lord, and on the next daie he was created earle of Northumberland. The queene gaue vnto him all the lands which had béene his ancestors, re|maining at that time in hir hands.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this season, although the French king (as was said) was verie loth to h [...]ue warres with England, yet the quéene tangling hir selfe contrarie to pro|mise in hir husbands quarrell, sent a defiance to the French king by Clarenceaux king of armes; who comming to the citie of Remes, where the said king then laie, declared the same vnto him the seuenth of Iune, being the mondaie in Whitsunwéeke. On the which daie, Garter and Norreie king of armes, ac|companied with other heralds, and also with the lord maior and certeine of the aldermen of the citie of London,Quéene Ma|rie proclameth open warres against the French king. by sound of three trumpets that rode before them, proclamed open war against the said French king, first in Cheape side, and after in other parts of the citie, where customarilie such proclamations are made: the shiriffes still riding with the heralds, till they had made an end, although the lord maior brake off in Cheape side, and went to saint Peters to heare seruice, and after to Paules, where (accor|ding to the vsage then) he went on procession. King Philip bicause of the warres towards,King Philip passed ouer in|to Flanders betwixt him and the French king, the sixt of Iulie passed ouer to Calis, and so into Flanders, where on that side the seas he made prouision for those warres: at which time there was great talke among the com|mon people, muttering that the king making small account of the quéene, sought occasions to be absent from hir.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Neuerthelesse, she shortlie after caused an ar|mie of a thousand horssemen, and foure thousand foot|men, with two thousand pioners to be transported o|uer to his aid, vnder the leading of diuerse of the no|bilitie and other valiant capteins, whose names part|lie follow: the earle of Penbroke capteine generall,The names of the cap|teins ouer the quéenes for|ces. sir Anthonie Browne vicount Montacute lieute|nant generall vnder the said earle, the lord Greie of Wilton lord marshall, the earle of Rutland generall of the horssemen, the lord Clinton earle of Lincolne coronell of the footmen, the lord Russell earle of Bed|ford, the lord Robert Dudleie earle of Leicester and maister of the ordinance, the lord Thomas Ho|ward, sir William West lord de la Ware, sir Ed|ward Windsore after lord Windsore, the lord Braie, sir Edmund Briges lord Shandois, the lord Ambrose Dudleie earle of Warwike, the lord Henrie Dud|leie, Edward Randall esquier sergeant maior, mai|ster Whiteman treasuror of the armie, Edward Chamberleine esquier capteine of the pioners, sir Richard Leigh trenchmaster, Iohn Higate esquier prouost marshall, Thomas Haruie esquier muster-master, sir Peter Carew, sir William Courtneie, sir Giles Stranguish, sir Thomas Finch master of the campe, and other nobles, knights, and gentle|men of right approoued valiancie: although diuerse of them were suspected to be protestants. Further|more, to make king Philips power the stronger, there came aid vnto him from sundrie places; where|by as his armie increased in number, so likewise grew the same more puissant in strength. The people that assisted him are thus remembred by C. O. in his discourse of this warre, as here followeth:

Misit in auxilium Germania lecta virorum
Corpora ferratas acies peditúmque cateruas.Varie gen [...] in exerci [...]n Philippi.
Nec deerat miles Latia de gente cruentus,
Dalmata non deerat bello huic nec defuit Hunnus.
At tamen ante alios, fiducia summa locata est
In quibus armatus validè conuenerat Anglus.
Foedus amicitiae vetus id poscebat, & vxor,
Cui cum regefuit soci [...] commune periclum.

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