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Compare 1577 edition: 1 At the going foorth of this procession, the bishop of Rochester preached, exhorting them, that the dissenti|ons and discords which had long continued betwixt the people and their superiours, might be appeased and forgotten, proouing by manie arguments, that the same highlie displeased God. He admonished the lords, not to be so extreme and hard towards the peo|ple. On the other part, he exhorted the people in ne|cessarie causes, for the aid of the king and realme, chéerefullie, and without grudging, to put to their helping hands, according to their bounden duties. He further exhorted those in generall that were ap|pointed to be about the king, that they should forsake vice, and studie to liue in cleanesse of life and vertue. For if by their example the king were trained to goodnesse, all should be well; but if he declined through their sufferance from the right waie, the people and kingdome were like to fall in danger to perish. After the sermon and procession were ended, the lords and prelats went to their lodgings.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now, bicause the Englishmen should haue their ioies mingled with some sorrowes, it chanced that the Frenchmen (which about the same time that the kings grandfather departed this life, were waf|ting on the seas) within six or seauen daies after his deceasse, burnt the towne of Rie. Wherevpon, Froissard. Rie burnt by y^ [...] Frenchmen imme|diatlie after the coronation, the earles of Cambridge and Buckingham were sent with a power vnto Do|uer, and the earle of Salisburie vnto Southampton: but in the meane time, to wit, Tho. Wals. The French|men spoile the Ile of Wight. Sir Hugh Tirrell. the one and twentith of August, the Frenchmen entring the Ile of Wight, burnt diuerse townes in the same. And though they were repelled from the castell, by the valiant man|hood of sir Hugh Tirrell capteine thereof, who laid no small number of them on the ground; yet they con|streined the men of the Ile to giue them a thousand marks of siluer to saue the residue of their houses and goods, and so they departed from thence, Froissard. Tho. Walsi. Portsmouth, Dartmouth, & Plimmouth, burnt by the French. sailing still along the costs, and where they saw aduantage, set on land, burning sundrie towns néere to the shore, as Portesmouth, Dartmouth, and Plimmouth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 418They made countenance also to haue set on South|hampton, if sir Iohn Arundell, brother to the earle of Arundell had not beene readie there with a number of men of armes and archers, by whom the towne was defended, and the enimies chased to their ships. From thence the Frenchmen departed, and sailing towards Douer,Hastings burnt. burnt Hastings; but Winchels [...] they could not win, being valiantlie defended by the abbat of Battell,An ouer|throw giuen by the Frẽch to the Eng|lishmen. and others. After this, they landed one day not far from the abbeie of Lewes, at a place called Rottington, where the prior of Lewes, and two knights, the one named sir Thomas Cheinie, and the other sir Iohn Falleslie, hauing assembled a number of the countrie people, incountred the Frenchmen, but were ouerthrowen; so that there were slaine a|bout an hundred Englishmen; and the prior, with the two knights, and an esquier called Iohn Brokas, were taken prisoners, but yet the Frenchmen lost a great number of their owne men at this conflict, and so with their prisoners retired to their ships and gal|lies, and after returned into France.

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