Compare 1577 edition: 1 Soone after, the English nauie departed from Lisbone, and came vnto the mouth of the riuer of Taie, betweene Caperico and Belem, where the same daie on saint Iames eeue the lord William de Forzdulerun arriued also with three and thirtie other ships, The English ships méet togither. and so then they were in all about an hundred and six sailes verie well furnished and manned, and so from thence taking their course towardes Marsciles, finallie they arriued there in the octaues of the assumption of our ladie; and staieng there an eight daies (till they had repaired such things about their ships as were needfull) they set forward againe, and came to Messina in Sicile in the feast of the exaltation of the crosse. On the sunday following also came the French king thither, hauing lost no small part of his nauie by tempests or weather.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 King Richard as then remained at Saleru, and hearing that his nauie was gone towards Messina, he departed thence on the thirteenth day of September, and hasted forth towards Messina, They arriue at Messina. passing by Melphi and Cocenza, and so at length comming to Faro de Messina, he passed the same, K. Richard arriueth at Messina.and on the 23. day of September arriued at Messina with great noise of trumpets and other instruments, to the woonder of the French king and others that beheld his great puissance and roiall behauiour now at his comming. The same time he went vnto the French kings lodging, to commen with him of their businesse: and immediatlie the French king tooke the sea, in purpose to haue passed forward on his iournie but by contrarie wind he was staied and kept backe within the hauen, wherevpon both the kings determined to winter there, and in the meane time to prouide themselues of all things necessarie for their iornie, against the beginning of the next spring. On the 30 of September he receiued his sister the queene of Sicile, the widow of William late king of that Ile, whome he placed in a strong fortresse, which he tooke the same day, and left therein a conuenient garison of men of armes and demilances for the safegard of the place and of his said sister.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But now for the better vnderstanding of the cause of such quarelling as fell out betwixt the Englishmen and the Sicilians, yee shall vnderstand that a little before the arriuall of the kings of England and France in those parts, king William of Sicile was departed this life, leauing no issue behind him. Whervpon the lords of the Ile elected one Tancred to their king, a bastard sonne of Roger sometime king of that land, and grandfather to this last deceased king William. This Tancred though he receiued king Richard verie courteouslie: yet he greatlie trusted him not, bicause he demanded the dowrie of his sister queene Ioane, wife to the late king William to be restored, whereas he had not readie monie to discharge it.