Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now, although it came sometimes about sit for their purpose, yet it continued not long in that end; so as if therevpon they tooke the sea at anie time, they were forced to returne backe againe to land yer they could passe halfe the way ouer. And thus being diuerse times vnder saile, in hope to passe the seas hi|ther into England, they were still driuen backe a|gaine, till the thirtéenth of Aprill being Easter éeuen; on which day the wind comming fauorablie about, they tooke the seas, and sailed forward towards this land. The countesse of Warwike, hauing a ship of ad|uantage, arriued before the other at Portesmouth, and from thence she went to Southhampton; mea|ning to haue gone to Weimouth, where she vnder|stood that the quéene was landed: but here had shee knowledge of the losse of Barnet field, and that hir husband was there slaine.The countesse of Warwike taketh sanc|tuarie. Wherevpon she went no further towards the queene, but secretlie got hir ouer the water into the new forrest, and tooke sanctuarie within the abbeie of Beaulieu.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Quéene Margaret, and hir sonne prince Edward, with the other that landed at Weimouth, went from thence to an abbeie néere by called Céerne. Thither came vnto them Edmund duke of Summerset,The duke of Summerset, and the earle of Deuonshire cõfort quéene Margaret. and Thomas Courtneie earle of Deuonshire, with o|thers, and welcommed them into England, comfor|ting the quéene in the best maner they could, and wil|led hir not to despaire of good successe; for albeit they had lost one field (whereof the queene had knowledge the same day being mondaie in easter wéeke, the fif|téenth of Aprill, and was therefore right sorrowfull) yet they doubted not but to assemble such a puissance (and that verie shortlie) foorth of diuerse parts of the realme, as being faithfull, and wholie bent to spend their liues, and shed the best bloud in their bodies for hir sake, & hir sonnes, it should be hard for king Ed|ward to resist them with all the power he had or EEBO page image 686 could make.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Edw. Hall. The presence of these noble men greatlie comfor|ted hir, and relieued hir of the sorrowes that in ma|ner ouerwhelmed hir pensiue heart: for she doubted sore the end of all these procéedings; the which they concluded to follow vpon the aduancement of hir and hirs. Speciallie it misgaue hir, that some euill should chance to hir sonne prince Edward,The feare which quéene Margaret had for hir sonne. for shee greatlie weied not of hir owne perill (as she hir selfe confessed) and therefore she would gladlie haue had them either to haue deferred the battell till a more conuenient time: or else that hir sonne might haue béene conueied ouer into France againe, there to haue remained in safetie, till the chance of the next battell were tried: but they being of a contrarie mind, and namelie the duke of Summerset, she at length consented vnto that which they were resolued vpon.