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At the shore doctor Sands met with maister I|saac of Kent, who had his eldest sonne there, who vp|on the liking he had to doctor Sands, sent his sonne with him, who afterward died in his fathers house in Frankford. Doctor Sands and doctor Cox were both in one ship, being one Cokrels ship. They were within the kenning when two of the gard came thi|ther to apprehend doctor Sands. They arriued at Antwerpe, being bid to dinner to maister Locke. And at dinner time one George Gilpin being secre|tarie to the English house, and kinsman to doctor Sands, came to him and rounded him in his eare, and said; King Philip hath sent to make search for you, and to apprehend you. Herevpon they rose from their dinner in a maruellous great shower, and went out at the gate toward the land of Cleue; there they found a wagon and hasted awaie,Doctor Sands and doctor Cox go by wagon into Cleueland. and came safe to Auspurge in Cleueland, where doctor Sands tar|ried foureteene daies, and then iournied towards Strasborough, where after he had liued one yeare, his wife came vnto him. He fell sore sicke of a flix which kept him nine moneths, and brought him to deaths doore. He had a child which fell sicke of the plague and died. His wife at length fell sicke of a consumption and died in his armes; no man had a more godlie woman to his wife.

After this, maister Samson went awaie to E|manuell, a man skilfull in the Hebrue. Maister Grindall went into the countrie to learne the Dutch toong. Doctor Sands still remained in Strasbo|rough, whose sustentation then was chieflie from one maister Isaac, who loued him most dearelie, and was euer more readie to giue than he to take. He gaue him in that space aboue one hundred marks, which sum the said doctor Sands paied him againe, and by his other gifts and friendlinesse shewed him|selfe to be a thankfull man. When his wife was dead, he went to Zurike, and there was in Peter Martyrs house for the space of fiue wéekes.Happie news of queen Ma|ries death: wherevpon doctor Sands returneth into England. Being there as they sate at dinner, word suddenlie came that quéene Marie was dead, and doctor Sands was sent for by his friends at Strasborough. That news made maister Martyr and master Iarret then there verie ioyfull: but doctor Sands could not reioise, it smote into his hart that he should be called to mi|serie. Maister Bullinger and the ministers feasted him, and he tooke his leaue and returned into Stras|borough, where he preached, and so maister Grin|dall and he came towards England, and then to London the same daie that queene Elizabeth was crowned.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This is the true storie of such accidents as befell doctor Sands, a reuerend father, and constant in the truth; whereof if anie part had béene false, likelie it is that one or other would haue barked against it yer now. But the report being common, and hauing béene thus long extant in print, the silence of men is a sufficient proofe & confirmation of the truth.] Here therfore we will leaue doctor Sands in his archiepis|copall sée of Yorke; and after this long (but yet néed|full) digression fall againe to the discourse of Calis; which being lost (as you haue heard) in a verie short time after so long possession, tidings thereof were carried to and fro, farre and néere, by word of mouth and by writing. In so much that the same news like|wise being made notorious and knowne to the French were not so ioyfullie receiued in France, as they were generallie grieuous and displeasant to the whole relme of England: but speciallie to quéene Marie, who being a princesse of hart and courage, more than commonlie is in womankind,With what indignation quéene Ma|rie tooke the losse of Calis. thought hir selfe so much touched in honour by the losse of hir said towne and possessions on that side the sea, as she counted hir life irkesome, vntill the same were ei|ther recouered againe, or the losse redoubled with some like victorie against the French elsewhere.

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