Compare 1577 edition: 1 In this meane time also, whilest the French king with such a companie of dukes, earls and other lords, as had not béene heard of, still continued in Flan|ders, staieng as well for a conuenient wind, as for the comming of the duke of Berrie; it chanced that certeine English ships, as they wasted the seas,Two of the Frẽch kings ships taken with a great price in them. met with two of the French ships, that were sailing to|wards Sluis, and fighting with them, tooke them, and brought them both to Sandwich. There was found aboord the same ships, a maister gunner, that sometime had serued the Englishmen at Calis, when sir Hugh Caluerlie was lieutenant there; also diuerse great guns and engins to beat downe wals were found and taken in the same ships,Guns were inuented little more than six yeares before this time, to wit. An. 1380. with a great quantitie of powder that was more worth than all the rest.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the same time, or rather somewhat before, the Englishmen also tooke certeine hulks and six ca|riks of the Genowais, laden with great riches: but bicause they were merchants, they found such fauor at the kings hands through means of Michaell de la Poole then lord chancellor (whome they had made their fréend) that they had their vessels and all their goods restored,Restitution of merchants goods taken. and streightwaies they passed with the same vnto Sluis, where the enimies laie, to make sale of their wares there. Wherevpon much murmu|ring rose among the kings subiects, taking it in euill part, that they should be suffered so to go their waies to releeue the enimies of the realme, with such goods as were once brought into the Englishmens posses|sion, and speciallie the lord chancellor was verie e|uill thought of, for shewing so much fauour vnto those strangers.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 EEBO page image 454The French king still remaining in Flanders, ta|rieng for the comming of the duke of Berrie, and al|so for a conuenient wind, at length on the euen of All saints,The French fléet setting forward to|wards Eng|land is driuen backe by con|trarie winds. the wind came about very fauourablie for the Frenchmens purpose: wherevpon they weied anchors, and lanched from the hauen of Sluis, but they were not past twentie miles forward on their way, when the wind suddenlie turned contrarie to their course againe, and brought them backe with such violence, that diuerse of them as they should en|ter the hauen, were broken and brused, and so by this occasion, and the counsell of the duke of Berrie togi|ther, the French king brake vp his iournie for that yeare, and returned into France. ¶ Ye haue heard what was doone by the states assembled in parle|ment against the earle of Suffolke, whom the most part of the realme so greatlie hated, but yet neuer|thelesse, the king had such an affection towards him, that immediatlie after the parlement was dissolued, he vndid all that had béene enacted against him, re|ceiuing him into more familiaritie than before, and caused him to continue with the duke of Ireland,The kings inordinate af|fection to|wards the duke of Ire|land and the earle of Suf|folke. and Alexander Neuill archbishop of Yorke, which two lords trauelled most earnestlie to mooue the king a|gainst the other lords, and to disannull all that had béene doone in the last parlement.