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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 A proclamati|on for obser| [...]ing of or|ders.The ninetéenth of December a proclamation was made for orders to be obserued, concerning the imbarking of such soldiors as were licenced to de|part by passeport or otherwise: and likewise prohibi|ting the taking into anie vessell anie drie fish, wine, sugar, or anie houshold stuffe without speciall licence of the lord lieutenant. Whilest things passed thus in Normandie at Newhauen & thereabouts,The death of the lord Greie of Wilton. where the earle of Warwike & other valiant capteines were readie to make proofe of their high prowesse in time & place as occasion might serue, there ended his life at home that honorable baron, and right famous cap|teine in his daies William lord Greie of Wilton, knight of the most noble order of the garter, and at that present gouernor of Berwike, and warden of the east marches against Scotland. He deceased the fiue and twentith of December, in the yéere 1562, at Cheshnut in Hertfordshire, then the house of Henrie Denie esquier that had married mistresse Honor Greie, the said lord Greies onelie daughter. ¶The six and twentith of December the counte de Montgo|merie tooke shipping at Newhauen rode, accompa|nied with foure hundred harquebutters Frenchmen, and sailed to Déepe, there to be gouernor of that towne. He went in an English barke belonging to Nicholas Malbie secretarie to the earle of War|wike lord lieutenant.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The third of Ianuarie a shallop that was sent the same morning from Newhauen, laden with béere and other vittels to passe vnto Tankeruille, was assailed about Harflue, by a shallop of Hun|flue, which droue the hoie to the shore: so as the Eng|lishmen forsooke their hoie, and came running to Newhauen, to declare what had happened.A hoie reco|uered which the French had taken. Here|vpon the lord lieutenant sent foorth foure French shallops by water, and the horssemen with six hun|dred footmen passed foorth by land, and vsed such dili|gence, that they came euen as the Frenchmen were haling vp the hoie towards Harflue: and skirmish|ing with the Frenchmen (being foure score good har|quebutters) for the space of a long houre, at length recouered the hoie, and tooke thrée of their shallops with their ordinance, which they brought to New|hauen, with the losse of one onelie man, an harque|butter of capteine Zouches band. The fourth of Ianuarie in the morning, the English scout, being thirtie good harquebutters, were set vpon by the eni|mies that droue them vnto the verie gates. They shot also with their harquebusses into the towne, and ouer the mount roiall among the English soldiors. They hurt at that present thrée of the scouts; but when they perceiued the Englishmen were in a rea|dinesse to approch them, they departed, being in num|ber thrée hundred horssemen and a thousand footmen, soldiors of Mondeuille and Harflue.Certeine ap|prehended for conspiracie. The fift of Ia|nuarie were apprehended capteine Blondell, cap|teine Moucombell, monsieur Dimenee, and Uitan|na with others, for some conspiracie or traitorous practise which they went about, and had maliciouslie contriued. The same daie capteine Edward Hor|seie with his two hundred soldiors, & capteine Fran|cis Blunt with his hundred tooke shipping at New|hauen rode, and sailed to Déepe, there to remaine with the counte Montgomerie, whose wife the coun|tesse Montgomerie went also with them to hir hus|band the same time.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 On the saturdaie following,A great tem|pest in Lei|cester. the twelfe daie after Christmasse, being the ninth of Ianuarie, a great tempest of wind and thunder happened in the towne of Leicester, which vncouered two and fortie baies of houses, and ouerthrew manie, renting and tearing them in péeces, in a strange and maruellous maner. The people that were assembled that daie in the mar|ket place to buie and sell their vsuall chafer, wares, and commodities, were sore amazed and astonied with the hidiousnesse of that most outragious & vio|lent tempest. On thursdaie the 14 of Ianuarie at one of the clocke in the morning, there issued forth of Newhauen thréescore horssemen, and a thousand foot|men, all English; & comming to Mondeuille, where the Reingraue laie, gaue to them within an alarum,An alarum giuen to Mondeuille. but neither the Reisters, nor the Almane footmen, nor French that were within that towne would come foorth: and therefore after the Englishmen had tarri|ed there the space of foure houres, they returned backe againe to Newhauen.

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