Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the Wish at Rie (a place so called) the water came in so suddenlie,Hurt in Sus|sex by this sud+den inunda|tion of wa|ters. and flowed so high about mid|night, that it was eight or nine foot high in mens houses: insomuch that if one William White had not called them vp, some of them had like to haue béene drowned. And the same William White ha|uing a bote, fetcht a great companie of them out of their windowes, and carried them to drie land as fast as he could fetch them, which were in great dan|ger and feare, and glad to escape with their liues. Moreouer, the water came in so vehementlie there, that it brake into the marishes, and made such waie, that where of late yeares, and now before this great floud came, a cockebote could not passe in at a low water, now a fisherman drawing six foot water and more maie come in at a low water, and at a full sea the greatest ship that the quéenes maiestie hath may come in, and haue good harborough there.A strange e|uent wrought by the inflow|ing of the water. The conti|nuance of the same will not onelie be profitable to the most part of the inhabitants there, but also com|modious vnto all the queenes subiects trauelling by sea.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 And whereas one of the owners of a great part of the same marishes had certeine poles set vp there in (and being verie meet and in conuenient place of the same marish) for the drieng of their fishing nets, and receiued monie yeerelie of those that dried their nets there sufficientlie inough: yet he caused his seruant to pull vp the poles, and laie them in an house stan|ding in the same marish: and also commanded his seruant to giue them warning; that they should no EEBO page image 1224 more hang their nets there, except they would come and compound with him for it. And the same night (by Gods prouidence) it came so to passe, that accor|ding to his saieng (though contrarie to his good will and mind) they are not like to hang their nets there anie more, bicause of the depth of the water is so great, and like to continue. In hope of continuance of the same new opened hauen,A new hauen and the same like to conti|nue. certeine men of the same towne haue begun to build faire barks to tra|uell the seas, the which in continuance of time will be a great furtherance to the maintenance of the quéenes nauie. At the blacke shore end, before the said floud, no bote could passe further than the shore end; and now a bote that draweth six foot water maie come in at a low water. Without the barre, the wa|ter is deeper than it was by two foot and more in the chanell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 At Prum hill marish, foure miles from Rie, the water came in so outragiouslie,Hurt in Kent by the same tempest and breaking in o [...] the streame. that it brake downe the marish wals, one master Burie being owner thereof, who lost by the same a thousand one hundred threescore and two of his shéepe, and it is thought that the marish is neuer like to be gotten againe. Also at Erith breach, a mariner riding by the marishes, sée|ing two maidens in the marishes, and perceiuing the waters breaking in so fast, that the maides were not like to escape, rode vnto them, and one of them gat vp behind him, & the other tooke hold on the horsse taile, and by that means were both saued from drow|ning. In the same marish were drowned a great number of sheepe. Also there in a marish land that was sowne, were two boies kéeping crowes in the after noone, & séeing the water breaking in so vehe|mentlie, gat them into a cart that was not farre from them, where they were faine to tarrie vntill the next tide, which came in so boisterouslie, that it had like to haue ouerthrowne both the cart & boies. And the one of them being more stronger than the other, kept the other in his armes,A boie drow|ned after he was dead. where he with cold, wet, and feare, died: so that he was faine to let him fall from him into the water, when he perceiued that he was past recouerie. A little from that place were al|so drowned a thousand shéepe, and also manie other cattell.