Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 About this time the French king (now that the season of the yeare was come) set forward toward the holie land,The French king setteth foorth from Messina to|wards the holie land. leauing king Richard behind him in Sicile: and the two and twentith day after his set|ting foorth from Messina, he arriued at the siege of Acres or Acon. The same day also that the French king departed from Messina, queene Elianor the mother of king Richard arriued there, bringing with hir the ladie Berengaria the daughter of Sanctius the king of Nauarre, and the fourth day after quéene Elianor tooke leaue of hir sonne king Richard,Quéene Eli|anor retur|neth by Rome. and departed homeward towards England, taking hir iournie by Rome about the businesse of Geffrey the elect of Yorke, as to intreat the pope that he would confirme and consecrate him archbishop, or to autho|rise some other to doo it in his name. The ladie Be|rengaria remained behind with the kings sister Ioane quéene of Sicile.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this in the moneth of Aprill, on the wednes|day in the passion weeke, king Richard (after he had finished and made an end of all conclusions with king Tancred) did also set forward with his sister Ioane, who tooke with hir the ladie Berengaria daughter to the king of Nauarre, affianced to him long before, Matth. Paris. 150. ships and 53. galies saith Rog. Houed. as aboue is partlie mentioned. His na|uie consisted in thirteene mightie great ships with triple sailes, an hundred carikes or rather hulkes, and fiftie gallies. He was no sooner abroad in the maine sea, but a great tempest arose, wherewith his whole nauie was sore tossed and turmoiled vp and downe the seas, and at length driuen on the coast of Cypres, where séeking to take harbour, & to come on land, the Cypriots would not suffer him, but shew|ed countenance to driue him backe, and to resist his landing. Also whereas six of his ships were so driuen by force of tempest from the residue, that thrée of them perished, and three being cast vpon the shoare of Cypres before the kings arriuall there, the souldiers and other people in the same were compelled to come on land for sauing their liues, where otherwise they stood in danger of drowning, the people of the Ile assailing them in right cruell sort, slue diuerse, and tooke the residue prisoners, and so deteined them for a certeine season.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 King Richard then vnderstanding this iniurie to him doone by the Cypriots, & perceiuing they would resist his landing, prepared himselfe and his people to enter vpon them by force. The king of Cypres I|sakius or Cursach (whome Houeden nameth empe|rour of Cypres) had assembled the most part of all the power of men that he might make (though few of them were armed, or had any great skill in feats of warre) and caused them to set boords, logs of wood, benches, formes, and great chests afore them, as a de|fense, and as it were in steed of a wall, that by suc|cour thereof they might the better kéepe off their eni|mie from landing.