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Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the beginning of March in this tenth yeere, Richard earle of Arundell, being appointed lord ad|merall,The earle of Arundell go|eth to the sea with 500 men of armes and a thousand ar|chers as Frois|sard noteth. & Thomas Mowbraie earle of Notingham, the earle of Deuonshire, and the bishop of Norwich (as Froissard saith) went to the sea with a warlike power of men of armes and archers, so well trimmed and appointed as was possible. For the lord admerall vnderstanding that the duke of Glocester, and ma|nie other noblemen would sée the muster of his men, vsed all diligence, and spared for no costs, to haue the most choisest and pikedst fellowes that might be got|ten, not following the euill example of others in times past, which receiued tag and rag to fill vp their numbers,A great abuse in choise of souldiers. whom they hired for small wages, and re|serued the residue to their pursses. And when to the aduancement of the realms commoditie they should haue incountered the enimies, they shifted off all oc|casions thereto, and onelie prolonged time, without atchiuing any enterprise auaileable, to the end they might receiue the whole wages, and kéepe themselues from danger, which they should hardlie haue auoi|ded, when they had not about them such able men as were like to match the enimies: but the earle of A|rundell contrarilie got the ablest men he might, not sparing his owne pursse, to the end that by their ser|uice he might atchiue some worthie enterprise, to re|dound vnto the commoditie of his countrie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the duke of Glocester had beheld so faire and chosen a power of men of warre, they were streight|waies appointed to get them on shipbrood, & so being imbarked, the whole nauie passed foorth to the Thams mouth, where they staied to watch for the fléet of Flanders, that was readie to come from Rochell with wines. At length, vpon a sundaie, being the e|uen of the Annuntiation of our ladie, the Flemish fleet was discouered a good way off, by one that was mounted into one of the tops of a ship of the Eng|lish fléet. The earle of Arundell greatlie reioising at those newes, foorthwith with his whole fléet made to the sea. When the Flemings approched neere to our nauie, they made saile, as if they would set vpon the same;A good p [...]|licie. and our men of purpose made countenance as if they would haue retired, as mistrusting them|selues to be able to match their aduersaries,

A great vic|torie of the English na|uie against the Flemish fléet.

Ia. Meir. Tho. Walsi.

who co|ueting rather a safe passage than battell, passed by: but the Englishmen hauing once got the wind fit for their purpose, suddenlie set vpon the Flemish ships, and fought with them right fiercelie: at length, after a sore conflict which indured foure houres, the victorie fell to the Englishmen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 There were taken fourescore ships, with diuerse capteins and men of armes, namelie their chiefe ad|merall, named Iohn Buicke, a perfect good seaman, and one that had aforetime doone much hurt to the English nation. Diuerse of their ships were bouged, and some escaped from the battell. But the earle of Arundell pursued them so egerlie for the space of two daies togither, that at length he tooke them, and brought them backe to his nauie, so that what in the battell and in the chase, there were taken of great and small, to the number of an hundred vessels, all fraught with wines, so that there was found aboord the same nine thousand tuns, Ia. Meir. Thom. Wals. or rather (as other saie) ninetéene thousand, which togither with the ves|sels were streight sent vnto Orwell hauen, and to o|ther hauens abroad in the realme, beside that which fell to the kings share, as due to him by his preroga|tiue. Part of the Flemish fléet escaping (as before ye haue heard) was pursued vnto the hauen of Sluis and Blankerke.

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