Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the other part, Lewes who all this season re|mained at London, being sore dismaied for the losse of his people, began to feare euerie daie more and more, least by some practise he should be betraied and deliuered into his enimies hands. Therefore he went about to make himselfe as strong as was possible,Lewes sen|deth to his fa+ther for aid. & fortifieng the citie, sent messengers into France, to require his father to send him more aid. His [...]ther sorie to heare of his sons distresse, and loth that he should take the foile, caused his daughter the wife of Lewes, to prepare a power of men, that the same EEBO page image 201 might passe with all speed ouer into England to the aid of hir husband. For the French king himselfe would not séeme to aid his sonne, bicause he was ex|communicated: but his daughter in law, hauing licence and commission thereto, gat togither three hundred knights,In armie prepared in Frãce to come to the succour of Lewes. or men of armes, whome with a great number of other souldiers and armed men, she sent downe to Caleis, where Eustace the moonke had prouided a nauie of ships to conueie them ouer into England. But how they sped you shall heare anon.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the meane time the earle of Penbroke appro|ched towards London, Polydor. purposing to assaile the citie now in this opportunitie of time, letting passe no oc|casion that might further his procéedings, night and day studieng how to recouer the realme wholie out of the Frenchmens hands, and to set the same at li|bertie:The diligence of the earle of Penbroke. so that what was to be deuised, he did deuise, and what was to be doone, that he did, not forslowing anie occasion or opportunitie that might be offered. The English barons also calling to mind the benefit which they had receiued at the Frenchmens hands in time of their most need, sought now by all means pos|sible, some waie how to procure a peace betwixt king Henrie and the said Lewes, thinking by that means to benefit themselues, and to gratifie him in lieu of his former courtesie bountifullie shewed in a case of extremitie, which bicause it was obteined in a wished time was the more acceptable, whereas being linge|red it had beene the lesse welcome, as one saith,
Gratia quae tarda est ingrata est, gratia námAnson in epig.Quùm fieri properat, gratia grata magis.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Hervpon they caused dailie new articles of agree|ment to be presented in writing vnto the said Lew|es, as from king Henrie. But while these things were a dooing, Matth. Paris. the earle of Penbroke and other the lords that tooke part with king Henrie, hauing ad|uertisement, that a new supplie of men was readie to come and aid Lewes, they appointed Philip de Al|benie and Iohn Marshall to associat with them the power of the cinque ports, and to watch for the com|ming of the aduersaries, that they might kéepe them from landing, who on saint Bartholomews day set forth frõ Caleis, in purpose to arriue in the Thames, and so to come vp the riuer to London. Howbeit Hu|bert de Burgh capiteine of the castell of Douer, to|gither with the said Philip de Albenie and Iohn Mar|shall, with other such power as they could get togi|ther of the cinque ports, hauing not yet aboue the number of 40 ships great & small, vpon the discoue|ring of the French fleet, which consisted of 80 great ships, besides other lesser vessels well appointed and trimmed, made foorth to the sea. And first coasting a|loofe from them,Hubert de Burgh as|saileth the French fléet. till they had got the wind on their backs, came finallie with their maine force to assaile the Frenchmen, and with helpe of their crossebowes and archers at the first ioining, made great slaugh|ter of their enimies, and so grapling togither, in the end the Englishmen bare themselues so manfullie,The French fléet is van|quished. that they vanquished the whole French fléet, and ob|teined a famous victorie.