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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The said Rust was much lamented, bicause he was not onelie knowne to be a skilfull maister, but also counselled the said sir Iohn Arundell in no wise to go to sea, at what time he would needs set forward, forsing the said Rust and the marriners to hoist vp sailes and make awaie. They that scaped to land in that Ile, found nothing there to releeue their mise|ries, but bare ground, so that diuerse starued through cold, wanting fier and other succour: the residue that were lustie and wise withall, ran vp and downe, and sometime wrestling, and otherwise chafing them|selues, remained there in great miserie, from the thursdaie, till sundaie at noone next insuing. At what time, when the sea was appeased and waxen calme, the Irishmen that dwelled ouer against this Ile on the maine, came and fetched them thence, and relée|ued them the best they could, being almost dead, through trauell, hunger, and cold.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 The said sir Iohn Arundell lost not onelie his life, but all his furniture and apparell for his bodie,The excesse and sumptu|ous apparell, of sir Iohn Arundell. which was verie sumptuous, so that it was thought to sur|mount the apparell of any king. For he had two and fiftie new sutes of apparell of cloth of gold or tissue, as was reported, all the which, togither with his hors|ses & geldings, amounting to the value of ten thou|sand marks, was lost at the sea. And besides this, there were lost at the same time fiue and twentie ships, with men, horsses, and other riches,There were drowned a|boue a thou|sand men in one place and other, as the additions to Ad. Merimuth doo testifie. which atten|ded him in that voiage. Yet sir Thomas Percie, and sir Hugh Caluerlie, with sir William Elmham, and certeine others escaped, but cruellie tormented with vnmercifull tempest: and before sir Thomas Per|cie could get to land, after the sea was quieted, he was assaulted by a Spaniard, against whome he so defended himselfe, that in the end he tooke the Spa|nish vessell, and brought hir, with all that he found aboord in hir, vnto the next shore, and sold the same for an hundred pounds, and without long delaie, tooke the sea, & passed ouer to Brest, of which fortresse he was capteine, iointlie with sir Hugh Caluerlie, and therefore doubting least some inconuenience might chance thereto now in both their absence, he made the more hast, not taking rest till he came thi|ther, notwithstanding his passed painefull trauels. Sir Hugh Caluerlie was neuer in his life in more danger of death, than at that time: for all that were in his ship (as Froissard writeth) were drowned, ex|cept EEBO page image 424 himselfe & s [...]auen mariners. We find, that there were drowned in one place & other, aboue a thousand Englishmen in that most vnluckie voiage. ¶ Some writers impute this calamitie to light on the said sir Iohn Arundell & his companie, for the lasciuious and filthie rule which they kept before their setting foorth, in places where they laie, till their prouision was rea|die;Outragious wickednesse iustlie puni|shed. who not content with that which they did before they tooke ship, in rauishing mens wiues, maids and daughters, they caried them aboord, that they might haue the vse of them whilest they were vpon the sea,

(Saeua libido furens, quid non mortalia cogis
Pectora? Quídue tuo non est violabile telo?)
and yet when the tempest rose, like cruell and vn|mercifull persons they threw them into the sea, ei|ther for that they would not be troubled with their la|mentable noise and crieng, or for that they thought so long as they had such women aboord with them (whome they had abused so long) God would not ceasse the rage of the tempest. But it should appeare that this tempest was generall, for where the Spa|nish and French fléets were abroad at the same time, being assembled togither to annoie the coasts of this land, their ships were likewise tossed and turmoiled, so as no small number of them were lost, in so much that the damage which they susteined, was thought far to passe that which hapned to the English nauie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 In this yeare about Christmasse, sir William de Montacute earle of Salisburie, after he had remai|ned twelue moneths space at Calis, the kings lieute|nant there was called home,Sir Iohn Deuereux made deputie of Calis. & sir Iohn Deuereux a right valiant knight, and an old man of warre, was sent thither in his place. ¶ Also, sir Iohn Harleston was called home from Chierburg, and sir William Windeshore a noble knight was sent thither to be capteine of that fortresse. ¶After the Epiphanie, was a parlement called at London, which continued till the beginning of the kalendes of March. ¶Also wher|as the yeare before there had beene certeine bishops, earles, barons, and iustices appointed, to haue the go|uernement and rule about the king; now at the re|quest of the lords and commons in this parlement as|sembled;The earle of Warwike ele|cted protector. the lord Thomas Beauchampe earle of Warwike was chosen to remaine continuallie with the king, as chéefe gouernour, both of his person, and to giue answer to all strangers that should come hi|ther about any businesse whatsoeuer, and further to haue the rule and order of all things, in lieu of those that were chosen thereto before: it was perceiued that they had sought to inrich themselues, & had doone little to the aduancement of the kings honor, or state of the common-wealth, but rather emptied the kings cofers.

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