Compare 1577 edition: 1 This is the true storie of such accidents as befell doctor Sands, a reuerend father, and constant in the truth; whereof if anie part had béene false, likelie it is that one or other would haue barked against it yer now. But the report being common, and hauing béene thus long extant in print, the silence of men is a sufficient proofe & confirmation of the truth.] Here therfore we will leaue doctor Sands in his archiepis|copall sée of Yorke; and after this long (but yet néed|full) digression fall againe to the discourse of Calis; which being lost (as you haue heard) in a verie short time after so long possession, tidings thereof were carried to and fro, farre and néere, by word of mouth and by writing. In so much that the same news like|wise being made notorious and knowne to the French were not so ioyfullie receiued in France, as they were generallie grieuous and displeasant to the whole relme of England: but speciallie to quéene Marie, who being a princesse of hart and courage, more than commonlie is in womankind,With what indignation quéene Ma|rie tooke the losse of Calis. thought hir selfe so much touched in honour by the losse of hir said towne and possessions on that side the sea, as she counted hir life irkesome, vntill the same were ei|ther recouered againe, or the losse redoubled with some like victorie against the French elsewhere.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In respect whereof she ceased not to trauell after with king Philip hir husband, as with hir owne pri|uie councell, and the lords of the realme, which waie should be best to reuenge this iniurie: and speciallie now whilest the French king was occupied in wars with king Philip, to indamage some of his countries by waie of inuasion, & to surprise some of his townes vpon the sudden. And among sundrie deuises,Force inten|ded against Brest in Bri|taine. none was thought so fit to be attempted as an hauen towne in Britaine called Brest, which in the time of king Richard the second was kept and mainteined with an English garrison, vntill the said king ren|dered the same to the French king againe by compo|sition. This towne as well for the conuenient situa|tion alwaies readie to receiue fresh succors and vit|telling out of England by sea, as also for that it was knowne to the quéene and hir councell at that pre|sent, not to be furnished with anie garrison of sol|diors, sufficient to repell the power of a prince vp|on the sudden, was thought to be the best marke to be shot at for the time. Wherefore vpon this case well debated, there was immediatlie order giuen to Ed|ward lord Clinton then high admerall of England,The lord Clinton ad|merall of En|gland sent [...] against [...] with all expedition to prepare himselfe with all the quéenes ships of warre, furnished with soldiors, mu|nition & vittels, to ioine with the admerall of king Philip, who had like order from the said king to ioine with the nauie of England for the atchiuing of this enterprise.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But before I declare to you the aduenture of these two great nauies by sea, it shall not be imper|tinent to touch some accidents in the meane time by EEBO page image 1150 land.Monsieur de Thermes [...]apteine of Calis work| [...] vpon the [...]uan [...]age to [...] the French [...] mo [...]e ho| [...]orable ser| [...]ce. While king Philip being absent from the low countrie, was (as you haue heard) occupied with his wa [...]res in France, monsieur de Thermes the new capteine of Calis, being a man verie expert in the wars (whose propertie is neuer to neglect anie time of aduantage) cast in his mind, how (during king Ph [...]lips absence) to doo some singular seruice to the French king his maister. And espieng well the neg|ligence of the Flemings his neighbors, how little they vnderstood the great weakening of their coun|trie by the losse of Calis, and that there was no new prouision made for the defense thereof, more than was before, whilest Calis was English, by the losse wherof, their frontiers were now become open for the French at all times to enter. He therefore taking out of Calis so manie of his soldiors as might be spared from thense, adioining to them all the forces of the French garrisons in Arthois, Bul|longnois, and Picardie, whereof togither with the soldiors of Calis, being to the number of seuen hun|dred footmen, and thrée hundred light horssemen Sco|tish, there were assembled fouretéene ensigns of the French footmen, eightéene vanlins of Almans, foure or fiue hundred men at armes of France, be|side the light horssemen Scots, amounting in the whole to the number at the least of nine thousand footmen, and fifteene hundred horssemen, entred in|to Flanders, with full determination to spoile and waste all king Philips countrie along the sea coast,Monsieur de Thermes de| [...]mination a [...]le king Philips [...]ntrie. and namelie a proper hauen towne called Dun|kirke, and with like purpose to haue surprised the towne of Graueling; if occasion would so serue.