Compare 1577 edition: 1 Immediatlie after the breaking vp of the parle|ment, that is to saie, about the first of Iune, the king being earnestlie called vpon by messengers sent from the Gascoignes to prouide in time for the de|fense and safegard of that countrie, sith otherwise he stood in danger to loose it,The king p [...]+poseth to go himselfe into Gascoigne with all speed he resolued to go thither; and therevpon caused summons to be gi|uen to all those that held of him by knights seruice, to prepare to be at Portesmouth, with horsse and ar|mour in the octaues of the Trinitie. Herewith he made great prouision of ships, the which being assem|bled, and the armie likewise come togither, through lacke of conuenient wind he was inforced to stay a long time, to his great gréefe and no lesse charges.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Finallie, on the 6 of August he tooke the sea,He taketh the sea. lea|uing his brother the earle of Cornewall, and the quéene in charge with gouernance of the realme, and of his sonne the lord Edward. There departed with him from Portesmouth thrée hundred sailes of great ships, besides a number of other smaller vessels. And thus accompanied, he tooke his course to Gascoigne, & about our ladie day named hir Assumption, he ar|riued at Burdeaux,He arriueth at Burdeaux. where he was of the citizens ho|norablie receiued. Immediatlie after his arriuall there, he caused the towne of the Rioll to be compas|sed about with a strong siege, within the which a great number of rebels were inclosed, which valiant|lie defended the place in hope of rescue, which Gaston de Bierne that was fled to the king of Spaine had promised to procure for them. But the king of Eng|land to preuent them in that point, sent the bishop of Bath,Ambassadors sent into Spaine. and his trustie chapleine sir Iohn Mansell vn|to the said king of Spaine, to conclude freendship and aliance with him, so that the lord Edward his eldest sonne might marrie the king of Spaine his daughter.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After long treatie,A marriage concluded be|twixt the K. of Englands sonne & the K. of Spaines daughter. by the diligence of the said am|bassadors, a full conclusion followed of their motion. And whereas the king of England had giuen and as|signed the dominion of Gascoigne to his said sonne the lord Edward, the king of Spaine in the instru|ment that conteined the couenants of the marriage, resigned and quite claimed all the right and title within Gascoigne which he had or might haue by the gift of king Henrie the second, and by confirmation of the kings, Richard and Iohn. In this meane while, the townes and castels which the rebels held, were won and deliuered into the kings hands, and here|with followed a great dearth in the kings armie, so that a hen was sold for six pence sterling,A dearth in the kings campe. a pound weight in bread was at two pence or three pence, a gallon of wine at two shillings, a coome of foure bu|shels of wheat at twentie shillings, so that a knight with his esquire, and coistrell with his two horsses, might scarse be competentlie found for two shillings in siluer. Wherefore the king to relieue his people there with him on that side the sea, sent the prior of Newbourgh with other into England, to cause pro|uision of vittels and other necessaries to be conueied and brought vnto him into Gascoigne, and so there was a great quantitie of graine and powdred flesh taken vp and sent awaie with all conuenient spéed.