Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Wherevpon he with his brother the duke of Glo|cester, the lord Scales, and diuerse other his trustie friends, entered into the ship.The lord Hastings. The lord Hastings ta|ried a while after, exhorting all his acquaintance, that of necessitie should tarie behind, to shew themselues openlie as friends to king Henrie for their owne safegard, but hartilie required them in secret to co [...]|tinue faithfull to king Edward. This persuasion de|clared, he entered the ship with the other, and so they departed,The number that passed o|uer with king Edward. being in number in that one ship and two hulkes, about seuen or eight hundred persons, ha|uing no furniture of apparell or other necessarie things with them, sauing apparell for warre. Abr. Fl. [For it was no taking of leasure to prouide their corporall necessaries (though the want of them could hardlie be borne) in a case of present danger; considering that they were made against by the contrarie faction with such swift pursute. And it had bene a point of ex|treme follie, to be carefull for the accidents, permit|mitting in the meane time the substance vnto the spoile.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 As king Edward with saile and ore was thus ma|king course towards the duke of Burgognies coun|trie (whither he determined at the first to go) it chan|ced that seuen or eight gallant ships of Easterlings, open enimies both to England and France, were a|brode on those seas, and espieng the kings vessels, be|gan to chase him. The kings ship was good of saile, and so much gat of the Easterlings,King Ed|ward arriued at Alquemar [...] that he came on the coast of Holland, and so descended lower before a towne in the countrie called Alquemare, and there cast anchor as néere the towne as was possible, bi|cause they could not enter the hauen at an ebbing water. The Easterlings also approched the English ship, as néere as their great ships should come at the low water, intending at the floud to haue their preie: as they were verie like to haue atteined it in déed, if the lord Gronture,The lord Gronture. gouernor of that countrie for the duke of Burgognie, had not by chance béene at the same time in that towne.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This lord (vpon knowledge had of king Edwards arriuall there in the hauen, and in what danger he stood by reason of the Easterlings) commanded them not to be so hardie as once to meddle with anie Eng|lishmen, being both the dukes fréends and alies. Then did king Edward & all his companie come on land. Who after they had beene well refreshed & gent|lie comforted by the lord Gronture, they were by him brought to the Hagh, a rich towne in Holland, where they remained a while, hauing all things necessarie ministred to them by order of the duke of Burgog|nie, sent vnto the lord Gronture, immediatlie vpon certificat from the said lord Gronture of king Ed|wards arriuall. [Héere we sée in what perplexities king Edward and his retinue were, partlie by eni|mies at home in his owne countrie, whose hands he was constreined to flée from by the helpe of the sea; partlie also by aduersaries abroad, seeking opportuni|tie to offer him not the incounter onelie, but the o|uerthrow. And suerly, had not good fortune fauoured him, in preparing readie meanes for him to auoid those imminent dangers; he had doubtlesse fallen a|mong the weapons of his owne countrimen, and so EEBO page image 676 neuer haue feared forren force: but in escaping both the one and the other, euen with shift of so spéedie ex|pedition, it is a note (if it be well looked into) of happi|nesse, if anie happinesse may be in preseruation from ruine and reproch.]