Compare 1577 edition: 1 But when sir Thomas Kneuet, who was readie to haue boorded the great ship of Déepe, saw that the Souereigne missed the Carrike, suddenlie he cau|sed the Regent (in the which he was aboord) to make to the Carrike, and to grapple with hir a long boord And when they of the Carrike perceiued they could not depart, they let slip an anchor, and so with the streame the ships turned, and the Carrike was on the weather side, and the Regent on the lie side.A cruell fight betwixt the two nauies. The fight was cruell betwixt these two ships, the archers on the English side, & the crossebowes on the French part dooing their vttermost to annoie each other:The English Regent, and the French Carrik burnt togither. but finallie the Englishmen entered the Carrike, which being perceiued by a gunner, he desperatlie set fire in the gunpowder, as some say; though there were that affirmed, how sir Anthonie Oughtred folowing the Regent at the sterne, bowged hir in diuerse pla|ces, and set hir powder on fire.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But howsoeuer it chanced, the whole ship by rea|son of the powder was set on fire, & so both the Car|rike and the Regent being grappled togither, so as they could not fall off,The French nauie flieth. were both consumed by fire at that instant. The French nauie perceiuing this, fled in all hast, some to Brest, and some to the Iles ad|ioining. The Englishmen made out boats to helpe them in the Regent: but the fire was so terrible, that in maner no man durst approch; sauing that by the Iames of Hull certeine Frenchmen that could swim were saued. Capteine of this Carrike was sir Piers Morgan, and with him he had in the same nine hundred men: and with sir Thomas Kneuet and sir Iohn Carew were seuen hundred; but all drowned and burnt. The Englishmen that night laie in Berthram baie, for the French fléet was disperst (as ye haue heard.) The lord admerall after this mis|chance thus happened to these two worthie ships, made againe to the sea, and scowred all alongest the coasts of Britaine, Normandie, and Picardie, ta|king manie French ships, and burning such as they could not well bring away with them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The king of England hearing of the losse of the Regent, caused a great ship to be made,The kings ship roiall cal|led Henrie grace de Dieu such a one as the like had neuer béene séene in England, and na|med it Henrie grace de Dieu. The French king about the same time sent to a knight of the Rhodes called Priour Iehan, a Frenchman borne, of the countrie of Guien, requiring him to come by the streicts of Marrocke into Britaine: the which he did, bringing with him thrée gallies of force, with diuerse foists and row-gallies, so well ordin [...] and trimmed, as the like had not beene séene in these parties before his comming. He had laine on the coasts of Barbarie to defend certeine of the religion,A parlement wherein it was conclu|ded that king Henrie in pro|per person should inuade France. as they came from Tripolie. This yeare in the moneth of Nouember the king called his high court of parlement, in the which it was concluded, that the king himselfe in per|son with an armie roiall shuld inuade France; wher|vpon notice being giuen to such as shuld attend, they made their purueiance with all diligence that might be. Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 897. Great sub|sidie. In this parlement was granted to the king tws fiftéens, and foure demies; and head monie, of euerie duke ten markes, an earle fiue pounds, a lord foure pounds, a knight foure marks, & euerie man rated at right hundred pounds in goods, to paie foure marks, and so after that rate, till him that was valued at fortie shillings, paied twelue pence, and euerie man that tooke fortie shillings wages twelue pence, and euerie man and woman of fiftéene yeares or vp|ward foure pence.Bow stéeple builded. The steeple and lanterne of Bow church in Cheape was this yeare finished. By fire this yeare a great part of the kings palace of West|minster, and the chappell in the Tower of London,Kings palace at Westmin|ster burned. and manie other places in England were burned. In Aprill, the king sent a great nauie of twelue EEBO page image 816 thousand men to the sea. On Maie euen, Edmund de la Poole was beheaded on the Tower hill,Edmund de la Poole be|h [...]aded. his bro|ther Richard was after slaine in France.]