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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But in the meane season, there came to the earle a more ioifull message from Morgan Kidwellie, lear|ned in the temporall law,The Welsh|men offer to aid the earle o [...] Richmond. which declared that Rice ap Thomas, a man of no lesse valiantnesse than actiui|tie, and Iohn Sauage an approoued capteine, would with all their power be partaker of his quarell. And that Reginald Breie had collected and gotten togi|ther no small summe of monie for the paiment of the wages to the souldiers and men of warre: admo|nishing him also to make quicke expedition, and to take his course directlie into Wales. The earle of Richmond, bicause he would no longer linger and wearie his fréends, liuing continuallie betwéene hope and feare, determined in all conuenient hast to set forward, and caried to his ships armor, weapons, vittels, and all other ordinances expedient for warre.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After that all things were in readinesse, the earle being accompanied onelie with two thousand men, and a small number of ships, weied vp his anchors, and halsed vp his sailes in the moneth of August, and sailed from Harfléet with so prosperous a wind, that the seuenth daie after his departure, he arriued in Wales in the euening,The earle ar|riueth at Milford ha|uen. at a place called Milford hauen, and incontinent tooke land, and came to a place called Dalle; where he heard saie that a cer|teine companie of his aduersaries were laid in gar|rison to defend his arriuall all the last winter. And the earle at the sunne rising remooued to Hereford west, being distant from Dalle not full ten miles, where he was ioifullie receiued of the people, and he arriued there so suddenlie, that he was come and en|tered the towne at the same time when the citizens had but knowledge of his comming.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 A false rumor of ill newes.Here he heard newes, which were as vntrue as they trulie were reported to him in Normandie; that Rice ap Thomas, and Iohn Sauage, with bodie and goods, were determined to aid king Richard. While he and his companie were some what astonied at these new tidings, there came such message from the inhabitants of the towne of Penbroke, that refresh|ed and reuiued their frosen harts and daunted cou|rages. For Arnold Butler a valiant capteine, which first asked pardon for his offenses before time com|mitted against the earle of Richmond, and that ob|teined, declared to him that the Penbrochians were readie to serue and giue their attendance on their naturall and immediat lord Iasper earle of Pen|broke. The earle of Richmond, hauing his armie thus increased, departed from Hereford west to the towne of Cardigan, being fiue miles distant from thence.

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