Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 While these things were thus handled and ordered in England,The earle o [...] Richmonds preparation of ships and souldiers to the sea. Henrie earle of Richmond prepared an armie of fiue thousand manlie Britons, and fortie well furnished ships. When all things were prepared in a readinesse, and the daie of departing and setting forward was appointed, which was the twelfe daie of the moneth of October, the whole armie went on shipbord, and halsed vp their sailes, and with a prospe|rous wind tooke the sea. But toward night the wind changed, and the weather turned, and so huge and ter|rible a tempest so suddenlie arose, that with the verie power and strength of the storme,His ships dis|parkled by tempest. the ships were dis|parkled, seuered & separated asunder: some by force were driuen into Normandie, some were compelled to returne againe into Britaine. The ship wherein the earle of Richmond was, associat onelie with one other barke, was all night tossed and turmoiled.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the morning after, when the rage of the furi|ous tempest was asswaged, and the ire of blustering wind was some deale appeased; about the houre of noone the same daie, the earle approched to the south part of the realme of England,He séeth all the sea ban [...] furnished [...] souldiers. euen at the mouth of the hauen of Pole, in the countie of Dorset, where he might plainelie perceiue all the sea bankes & shores garnished and furnished with men of warre and soul|diers, appointed and deputed there to defend his arri|uall and landing (as before is mentioned.) Wherefore he gaue streict charge, and sore commandement, EEBO page image 745 that no person should once presume to take land, and go to shore, vntill such time as the whole nauie were assembled and come togither. [...] sendeth to [...]now whe| [...]her they [...]re with [...] or a| [...]ainst him. And while he taried and lingered, he sent out a shipboate toward the land side, to know whether they, which stood there in such a number, and so well furnished in apparell defensiue, were his foes and enimies, or else his fréends and comfortors.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 They that were sent to inquire, were instantlie de|sired of the men of warre keeping the coast (which thereof were before instructed & admonished) to des|cend and take land, affirming that they were appoin|ted by the duke of Buckingham there to await and tarie for the arriuall and landing of the earle of Rich|mond,A forged tale [...]o intrap the earles mes|sengers. and to conduct him safelie into the campe, where the duke not far of laie incamped with a migh|tie armie, and an host of great strength and power, to the intent that the duke and the earle, ioining in puis|sances and forces togither, might prosecute and chase king Richard being destitute of men, and in maner desperate, and so by that meanes, and their owne la|bours, to obteine the end of their enterprise which they had before begun.