Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus far haue I ouerpassed the common bounds of my purpose, in speaking so largelie of this mat|ter of combat, bicause of the rarenesse thereof, chan|cing betwixt two so mightie princes, although it came not to the effect of triall. And now to returne to that which followed further vpon the defiance,The empero [...] defied by the kings of Eng|land and France. de|nounced to the emperor by the two kings of armes, Guien and Clarenceaux. Ye shall vnderstand, that the lords and nobilitie, to the number of seuen hun|dred in whose presence it was giuen, tooke it so offen|siuelie, that drawing foorth their swords, they sware that the same should be reuenged: for otherwise they protested, that the infamie would redound to them and their heires for euer. Herewith the warre was proclamed through all Spaine with baners displaied, in which were painted a red sword, with a burning cresset against the French king and his partakers, but not mentioning the king of England by expresse name. But it was recited in the proclamation, that the king of England had menaced and defied the em|perour in the French kings quarell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then were the English merchants in Spaine at|tached, and their goods put in safetie,English mer|chants staied in Spaine. till it might be knowne how the emperours subiects were ordered in England. Then likewise were all the ships of the emperours subiects here arrested: and in sembla|ble maner all the Englishmen and their goods and ships were arrested by the ladie regent in the low countries. The common people in England much lamented, that warre should arise betwéene the em|perour and the king of England, speciallie bicause the emperours dominions had holpen and reléeued them with graine in time of their necessitie & want. But cheefelie this matter touched merchants which hanted the emperors dominions. Yet at length were those of the low countries set at libertie, and their goods to them deliuered, in fauour of intercourse of EEBO page image 906 merchandize. But forsomuch as the Spaniards were still deteined, the ladie regent also deteined the ships and goods of the English merchants though she set their persons at libertie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 By this meanes the trade of merchandize was in maner fore let here in England,The incõmo|ditie rising of lacke of inter|course for tra|ficke. and namelie the clothes laie on their hands, whereby the common|wealth suffered great decaie, and great numbers of spinners, carders, tuckers, and such other that liued by clothworking, remained idle, to their great impo|uerishment. And as this warre was displeasant to the Englishmen, so was it as much or more displea|sant to the townes and people of the low countries, & in especiall to the townes of Antuerpe & Barrow, where the marts are kept. So that at length there came ambassadours from the ladie regent, the which associating themselues with don Hugo de Mendoza ambassadour for the emperour, came to the king at Richmond the twentie and ninth of March, and there mooued their sute so effectuallie,An abstinence of war gran|ted vpon sute made to the king of Eng|land. that an abstinence of warre was granted, till time that a further com|munication might be had: and vpon this point let|ters were sent into Spaine, France, and Flanders, and so this matter continued vntill answers were brought from thense againe.