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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Polydor. But now touching the dooings about the new K. You shall vnderstand, that by reason of his yoong yeares, as yet he was not able to gouerne himselfe, and therefore Iohn duke of Lancaster,The duke of Lancaster & the earle of Cambridge appointed protectors. and Edmund earle of Cambridge, with other péeres of the realme, were appointed to haue the administration. He was of good disposition and towardnesse, but his age being readie to incline which way soeuer a man should bend it, those that were appointed to haue the gouerne|ment of his person, did what laie in them now at the first, to keepe him from all maner of light demeanor. But afterwards, when euerie one began to studie more for his owne priuate commoditie, than for the aduancement of the common-wealth, they set open the gates to other, which being readie to corrupt his good nature, by little and little grew familiar with him, and dimming the brightnesse of true honour, with the counterfeit shine of the contrarie, so maske|red his vnderstanding, that in the end they brought him to tract the steps of lewd demeanor, and so were causers both of his and their owne destruction. This séemeth to be touched by C. Okland, who speaking of the death of the old king and the erection of the new, saith of him according to our annales, as followeth:

In Angl. prael.Vndecimum puer hic nondum transegerat annum,

Cùm iuuenile caput gessit diademate cinctum.

Qui postquam princeps iustis adoleuerat annis.

Dicere non facile est quantum distaret auitis

Moribus atque animo, fuit hic quàm disparemente,

Dissimili ingenio clarae matríque patríque.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 The Frenchmen not ignorant of such mischéefes as were like to grow in England, suffered no time to passe, but tooke occasions of aduantage when they were offered. Froissard. ¶ Among other enterprises I find, that shortlie after the deceasse of king Edward, the duke of Burgognie wan Arde, and two or three other fortresses in those marches. The Scots this yeare al|so wan the castell of Berwike by stealth one mor|ning,Berwike ca|stell woone by the Scots. but shortlie vpon knowledge had, the earles of Northumberland and Notingham, the lords Ne|uill, Lucie, Graistoke, & Stafford, with other lords, knights, and esquiers, came with their powers in all hast thither, and entring the towne, besieged the ca|stell, and finallie, assaulting them that kept it, wan it of them by force, and slue all those Scotishmen which they found within it, except Alexander Ramsie their capteine.Berwike ca|stell recoue|red by the Englishmen. When the Englishmen had thus recouered the castell, they entered into Scotland, in hope to find the Scots, and to fight with them whom they knew to be assembled.