Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 On the seuenth of Iulie, the Englishmen fought with like fortune against the Scots that were ente|red England at the west marches. For in the begin|ning they put the Scots to the worse, and tooke thrée hundred of them prisoners: but afterwards, bicause the Englishmen that had taken those prisoners, withdrew out of the field with the same prisoners, the Scots perceiuing the number of the English|men to be diminished, gaue a new onset on the Eng|lishmen, and them distressed. After this, the Scots sued for a truce, and had it granted to indure till the feast of saint Andrew.The popes [...]bassadour presenteth the [...] with a [...]. This yeare the first of Sep|tember was doctor Thomas Haniball maister of the rolles receiued into London with earles, and bi|shops, and diuerse other nobles and gentlemen, as ambassadors from pope Clement, which brought with him a rose of gold for a token to the king. And on the daie of the natiuitie of our ladie, after a so|lemne masse song by the cardinall of Yorke, the said present was deliuered to the king: which was a trée forged of fine gold, & wrought with branches, leaues, and floures resembling roses. This tree was set in a pot of gold which had three feet of antike fashion. The pot was of measure halfe a pint, in the vppermost rose was a faire saphire loupe persed, the bignesse of an acorne, the trée was of heigth halfe an English yard, and a foot in bredth.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This yeare in Iulie the lord Archembald Dou|glas earle of Angus, which had maried the quéene of Scots sister to the king of England, escaped out of France (where he had remained for a season, in ma|ner as a banished man) and came into England to the king, as then being at Gréenewich, and was of him courteouslie receiued. Sir Anthonie Fitz Her|bert one of the Iustices of the common plées,Commissio|ners sent into Ireland to re|forme the countrie. sir Rafe Egerton knight, and doctor Denton deane of Lichfield, being sent in the begining of this yeare in|to Ireland as commissioners, behaued themselues so sagelie, that they reformed diuers wrongs, brought sundrie of the wild Irish by faire means vnto obedi|ence, and made (by the kings authoritie) the earle of Kildare deputie of the land;The earle of Kildare made deputie of Ireland. before whome the great Onele bare the sword. And the lord Piers Butler earle of Ormond, which before was deputie, was now made high treasurer of Ireland. In Septem|ber the said commissioners returned.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 During all this season, there were dailie attempts made and practised by the Englishmen in the lowe countries, namelie the English horssemen; & the ad|uenturers rested not, but dailie made inuasions vp|on the French confines. But the aduenturers about the beginning of winter made an enterprise to fetch some bootie from a village lieng towards Mutrell. They were not fullie two hundred men, and of those there were fiue and twentie horssemen. The French|men by chance the same time were abroad vnder the conduct of the earle of Dammartine, which was going to S. Omers with fiftéene hundred horsse|men, and eight hundred footmen, and perceiuing where the aduenturers were comming, made to|wards them, and after long & cruell fight ouercame them, and slue most part of them, for that in defen|ding themselues most stoutlie, they had slaine and wounded a great number of the Frenchmen yer they could be ouercome, kéeping themselues close to|gither, and might not be broken so long as they had anie arrowes to shoot.The end of the Kréekers. This was the end of the ad|uenturers otherwise called Kréekers, being as har|die men as euer serued prince.