Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 A common councell cal|led.The maior on the next daie called a common coun|cell, whereof the number was an hundred fourescore and od, who ordeined that all wardens of mysteries shuld assemble their companies in their halles, where exhortation should be to the obseruation of peace; and if they spied any man either readie to stirre a rumor, or make to the deliuerance of such as were in prison, their names should be secretlie written, and so deli|uered to the maior: which policie well appeased this outrage. Where vpon after the commissioners sat in Guildhall, where manie of the robbers were attain|ted & put to execution, beside diuers great fines set on the heads of diuerse merchants, & paid, for winking at the matter. ¶ This yeare Iohn Kempe archbishop of Canturburie departed this life, & Thomas Burst|lier bishop of Elie remooued to his place, being the threescore and third archbishop of that see.

¶ In the moneth of Nouember, Abr. Fl. ex I. S. 681. in the Ile of Port|land not farre from the towne of Weimouth, was seene a cocke comming out of the sea, hauing a great crest vpon his head, and a great red beard, and legs of halfe a yard long: he stood on the water & crowed foure times, and euerie time turned him about, Fabian. and beckened with his head, toward the north, the south, and the west, and was of colour like a fesant, & when he had crowed thrée times, he vanished awaie. And shortlie after were taken at Erith within twelue miles of London, foure great and woonderfull fishes whereof one was called Mors marina, the second a sword fish, the other two were whales.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The French nation, Anno Reg. 35. hearing of the ciuall dissen|tion within the realme here, and for an old grudge séeking our annoie, two nauies appointed they to in|uade the townes standing vpon the riuage of the sea. The capteins of the one fléet was William lord Po|miers, and of the other sir Peter Bressie, a great ru|ler in Normandie. These two capteins, taking their course out of the mouth of Saine, seuered themsel|ues, the one westward; and the other eastward, which was sir Peter Bressie, who sailing alongst the coasts of Sussex and Kent, durst not yet take land, but staid in the Downes: and there hauing by espiall perfect notice that Sandwich was neither peopled nor fortified (because that a little before,Sandwich spoiled by the French. the rulers of the towne were from thense departed, for to a|uoid the plague, which sore there afflicted and siue the people) he entered the hauen, spoiled the towne, and after such poore stuffe as he there found rifled and taken, he fearing an assemblie of the countrie, short|lie gat him awaie.