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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 After this, vpon request made by the lords of Spaine, the lord Darcie and all his men the same night went aboord their ships, but Henrie Guilford, Weston Browne, and William Sidneie, yoong and lustie esquiers, desired licence to see the court of Spaine:The English men desire to sée the Spa|nish court. which being granted, they went thither, where they were of the king highlie interteined. Henrie Guilford and Weston Browne were made knights by the king, who also gaue to sir Henrie Guilford a canton of Granado, and to sir Wolston Browne an egle of Sicill on a chefe, to the aug|mentation of their armes. William Sidneie so ex|cused himselfe, that he was not made knight. When they had soiourned there a while, they tooke their leaue of the king and quéene, and returned through France into England.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 During which season, the lord Darcie made saile toward England,The lord Darcie retur|neth out of Spaine. and arriuing at Plimmouth, came to the king at Windsore, and so this iourneie ended. During the time that the lord Darcie was in Spaine, the ladie Margaret duches of Sauoie, and daughter vnto Maximilian the emperour, and go|uernour of Flanders, Brabant, Holland, Zeland, & other the low countries apperteining to Charles the yoong prince of Castile,The duchesse of Sauoie sẽ|deth to king Henrie for aid against the duke of Gel|ders. sent in the end of Maie to the king of England, to haue fiftéene hundred ar|chers, to aid hir against the duke of Gelders, which sore troubled the countries aforesaid. The king ten|derlie regarding the request of so noble a ladie, most gentlie granted hir request, and appointed sir Ed|ward Poinings, knight of the garter, and comptrol|ler of his house, a valiant capteine and a noble war|riour, to be lieutenant and leader of the said fiftéene hundred archers.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This gentleman accompanied with his sonne in law the lord Clinton, sir Matthew Browne, sir Iohn Digbie, Iohn Werton, Richard Whethrill, & Shrel|leie esquiers, with other gentlemen and yeomen, to the foresaid number of fiftéene hundred, tooke their ships a mile beside Sandwich, the eightéenth daie of Iulie, and landed at Armew the nineteenth daie, not without some trouble, by reason of a little storme. From thence they were conducted to Barowe, whi|ther the ladie Regent came to welcome them. On the sundaie, being the seuen & twentith of Iulie, they departed to Rossindale, and on thursdaie the last of Iulie they came to Bulduke. And the next daie the whole armie of the Almans, Flemings, and other apperteining to the said ladie met with the English|men without Bulduke, where they set foorth in order; the ladie Regent being there present, which tooke hir leaue of all the captein [...], and departed to Bal|duke.

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