The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 969)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 After this, the eighteenth of Iulie the admerall of France monsieur Danebalte hoised vp sailes,

The French [...] landeth in the Ile of Wight.

The French|men land in Sussex.

and with his whole nauie came foorth into the seas, and arriued on the coast of Sussex before bright Ham|stéed, and set certeine of his soldiors on land, to burne and spoile the countrie: but the beacons were fired, & the inhabitants thereabouts came downe so thicke, that the Frenchmen were driuen to flie with losse of diuerse of their numbers: so that they did little hurt there. Immediatlie herevpon they made to the point of the Ile of Wight, called saint Helens point, and there in good order vpon their arriuall they cast an|chors, and sent dailie sixtéene of their gallies to the verie hauen of Portesmouth. The English nauie li|eng there in the same hauen, made them readie, and set out toward the enimies, and still the one shot hot|lie at the other: but the wind was so calme, that the kings ships could beare no saile, which greatlie grie|ued the minds of the Englishmen, and made the eni|mies more bold to approch with their gallies, and to assaile the ships with their shot euen within the ha|uen.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The twentith of Iulie, the whole nauie of the Eng|lishmen made out,The Marie Rose drowned by negligence. & purposed to set on the French|men, but in setting forward, thorough too much fol|lie, one of the kings ships called the Marie Rose was drowned in the middest of the hauen, by reason that she was ouerladen with ordinance, and had the ports left open, which were verie low, and the great artillerie vnbreeched; so that when the ship should turne, the water entered, and suddenlie she suncke. In hir was sir George Carew knight and foure hundred soldiours vnder his guiding. There escaped not past fortie persons of all the whole number. On the morrow after about two thousand of the French|men landed in the Ile of Wight,Frenchmen distressed in the Ile of Wight. where one of their chiefe capteins named le cheualier Daux, a Prouen|cois was slaine with manie other, and the residue with losse and shame driuen backe againe to their gallies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king perceiuing the great Armada of the Frenchmen to approch, caused the beacons to be fi|red, and by letters sent into Hamptonshire, Sum|mersetshire, Wiltshire, and into diuerse other coun|tries adioining, gaue knowledge to such as were ap|pointed to be readie for that purpose, to come with all spéed to incounter the enimies. Wherevpon they repaired to his presence in great numbers well fur|nished with armor, weapon, vittels, and all other things necessarie, so that the Ile was garnished, and all the frontiers alongest the coasts fortified with ex|céeding great multitudes of men. The French cap|teins hauing knowledge by certeine fishermen, whom they tooke, that the king was present, & so huge a power readie to resist them, they disanchored and drew along the coast of Sussex, and a small number of them landed againe in Sussex, of whome few re|turned to their ships: for diuerse gentlemen of the countrie, as sir Nicholas Pelham, and others, with such power as was raised, vpon the sudden, tooke them vp by the waie and quickelie distressed them.