Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Although this request was vtterlie denied, and that the lord Wooduile was streightlie commanded by the king to make no such attempt; yet could not all that staie him,Lord Wood|uile gathere [...] a power in the Ile of Wigh [...]. but that withdrawing him into the Ile of Wight, whereof he was made ruler and cap|teine, he there gathered togither a crue of tall & har|die personages, to the number of 400, & with prospe|rous wind & weather arriued in Britaine, and ioined himselfe with the Britons against the Frenchmen. The French king aduertised herof, was not well ple|sed in his mind towards the king of England; till K. Henrie by new messengers informed him how guilt|lesse he was in the matter, and that by plaine and e|uident pr [...]ofes. With the which excuse the French king séemed to be the better pacified, and was con|tent to dissemble the matter.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Then the English ambassadors,The leag [...]e renewed be|twéene Eng|land and France. renewing the league and amitie betwixt king Henrie & the French king, for the space of twelue moneths, they returned into England, and shewed the king all things that they had either heard or séene; so that he perceiued that the French king dealt craftilie in this matter of EEBO page image 769 Britaine, still motioning peace when he meant no|thing else but warre.The king cal|l [...]th a parle|ment. He therefore called his high court of parlement, in the which it was not onelie de|termined that the duke of Britaine should be aided with a power of men against the wrongfull inuasi|ons of the Frenchmen, but also there were diuerse summes of monie granted to the furnishing foorth and maintenance of the same. And immediatlie hervpon, the king sent his ambassadors into France to certifie the French king what the estates assem|bled in parlement here in England had decréed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Wherefore he required him either to surceasse the warres which he had in hand against the Britons,A perempto| [...] ambassage [...] of Eng|land into France. or else not to be gréeued though he condescended to the iudgement and determination of the lords both spi|rituall and temporall, and commons of his realme, in taking vpon him the defense of the duke of Bri|taine; promising neuerthelesse that the English ar|mie should onelie take land within the duchie of Bri|taine, and séeke to defend the same against all those that did inuade it, and not to make anie warre with|in the French dominions. This message was no|thing regarded of the French king, in so much that the French armie procéeded in oppressing the Bri|tons, destroieng the countrie, and besieging townes.