Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 On saturdaie the most part of the Englishmen tooke ship and departed homewards: for glad might he thinke himselfe that could get soonest out of that vnwholsome and most vnsauorie aire. Manie sicke persons yet were left behind, impotent and not able to helpe themselues. The miserie whereof Edward Randoll esquire high marshall of the towne (who was appointed to tarrie and sée the vttermost of the composition accomplished) perceiuing, mooued with naturall pitie of his countrimen relinquished with|out comfort, Iohn Stow. Maister Ed|ward Ran|doll full of pi|tie and com|miseration. caused the said sicke persons to be caried aboord, not sparing his owne shoulders, at that time féeble and full of the plague, himselfe and his men still bearing & helping the poore creatures on shipboord. A rare fact worthie reward, and no doubt in remem|brance with God, the true recorder of mercifull de|serts. Thus was the towne of Newhauen reduced againe into the hands of the French, more vndoub|tedlie through the extreme mortalitie that so outra|giouslie afflicted the soldiors and men of warre with|in the same, than by the enimies inforcements, al|though the same was great, and aduanced to the vt|termost of the aduersaries power.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Besides the meaner sort of those that died of the pestilence during the siege,Chiefe perso|nages that died of the plague at Newhauen. these I doo find noted as chiefe: Cutbert Uaughan comptrollor of the towne, Francis Summerset coosine to the earle of Worce|ster, Auerie Darcie brother to the lord Darcie, Iohn Zouch brother to the lord Zouch, Edward Ormes|bie, Thomas Drurie aliàs Po [...]gnard, Richard Cro|ker, Iohn Cockson, Thomas Kemish, Iohn Proud, William Saule, Wilfreid Antwisell. Besides these being capteins in chiefe dieng there in that towne, or else sickening there and dieng vpon their returne into England, there were diuerse other gentlemen, and such as had charge, which likewise ended their liues by force of that cruell and most gréeuous pesti|lent infection.Diuerse of name by ca|non shot, &c. slaine. There were diuerse also that were slaine, as well by canon shot, as otherwise in the field in skirmish, as both the Tremains brethren of one birth, Nicholas and Andrew, capteine Richard Sanders, with master Robinson, and master Brom|field, of which two before ye haue heard: also one Leighton a gentleman, & diuerse mo whose names I know not, worthie neuerthelesse to be remembred & placed in ranke with such worthie men, as in their countries cause haue lost their liues, and are there|fore by writers registred to liue by fame for euer.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to passe to other matters at home. As ye haue heard, Iohn Stow. Pestilence transported from New|hauen to Lon|don. the plague of pestilence being in the towne of Newhauen, thorough the number of soul|diors that returned into England the infection ther|of spread into diuerse parts of this realme: but espe|ciallie the citie of London was so infected, that in the same whole yeare, that is to saie, from the first of Ianuarie 1562, vntill the last of December, in 1563, there died in the citie and liberties thereof (conteining one hundred & eight parishes) of all dis|eases twentie thousand, three hundred,One hundred and eight pa|rishes in Lon|don, besides eleuen in the suburbs. thrée score and twelue: and of the plague being part of the number aforesaid, seuentéene thousand, foure hundred, and foure persons. And in the outparishes adioining to the same citie, being eleuen parishes, died of all dis|eases in the whole yeare, thrée thousand, two hundred, foure score and eight persons: and of them, of the plague two thousand, seuen hundred, thirtie and two. So that the whole number of all that died of all dis|eases, as well within the citie and liberties, as in the outparishes, was twentie thrée thousand six hundred and thréescore: and of them there died of the plague, twentie thousand one hundred thirtie and six.