Compare 1577 edition: 1 After the kings nauie was gained, and his cap|teins (as before yee haue heard) on the sea taken; the lords lieng at Calis, being aduertised from the lord Fauconbridge (who after the taking of Montford laie still in Kent) that the people of that countrie and other parts were altogither bent in their fauor [and no lesse addicted to doo them seruice both with bodie and goods, Abr. Flem. than the Irishmen séemed to be at their re|ceiuing of the said duke of Yorke, and his yoonger sonne Edmund earle of Rutland, whom they so high|lie honoured, that they offered to liue and die in their quarell] they conceiued therevpon so great hope in their fréends within the realme, that they determi|ned to passe the sea, and therewith entring their ships with fiftéene hundred men landed all at Sandwich.

[But it is to be read in a late writer, Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 697. that the com|mons of Kent dreading the like vengeance towards them, as fell vpon them of Newberie, sent priuilie messengers to Calis to the foresaid erles,The men of Kent sent to Calis for the earles. beseeching them in all hast possible to come to their succour. Wherevpon the said earles sent ouer into Kent the lord Fauconbridge, to know if their déeds would ac|cord with their woods: so that anon the people of Kent and the other shires adioining, resorted to the said lord Fauconbridge in great number. Where|fore when the earles knew the willing harts of those people, they prepared to come into this land. Against whose comming, a long ballet was fixed vpon the gates of Canturburie, made in fauour of the duke of Yorke and the said earles, beginning thus: In the daie of fast and spirituall affliction, the celestiall in|fluence of bodies transitorie, &c.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now as they passed through Kent, Whethamsted there came to them the lord Cobham, Iohn Gilford, William Pech, Robert Horne, and manie other gentlemen; so that before they approched to London, their num|ber EEBO page image 654 was esteemed aboue fourtie thousand figh|ting men, for the fame of their landing being once knowen, gentlemen and yeomen resorted to them out of all the south parts of the relme. Upon which ru|mor, Thomas lord Scales, a man in great fauour with the king & quéene, accompanied with the earle of Kendall a Gascoigne, and the lord Louell, resorted to London with a great companie of armed men, de|claring to the maior, that their repaire onelie was to defend and kéepe the citie from spoile of such traitors as the king was crediblie informed were thither comming. To whom the maior answered, that he nee|ded no fellow helper, either to defend or gouerne the citie to him committed in charge. With which answer the lord Scales and his associats nothing contented, entred into the Tower, dailie deuising waies how to grieue the citizens, whom he perceiued to fauour ra|ther the duke of Yorks part, than the kings.