Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 When they had searched euerie where by the coast, and saw men still readie to receiue them with bat|tell, they turned sterne, and so got them home againe without anie act atchiued woorthie to be mentioned. The number of the Frenchmen was great,The number [...] the French [...]. so that diuerse of them that were taken prisoners in the Ile of Wight, and in Sussex, did report that they were thrée score thousand. The French king aduertised the emperor most vntrulie by letters, that his armie had gotten the Ile of Wight with the ports of Ham|ton, and Portesmouth, and diuerse other places. In August following,The earle of Hertford fo [...]|ra [...]th the middle mar|ches of Scot|land. the earle of Hertford entered a|gaine into Scotland with twelue thousand men, and destroied all the townes in the middle marches, bur|ned Coldingham abbeie, and passed to the west mar|ches, sore annoieng and indamaging the Scots, and yet neither they, nor the Frenchmen that were sent into Scotland this yeare to the aid of the Scots, vn|der the leading of monsieur de Lorges, Montgome|rie his father, durst once come foorth into the field to incounter with him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Also in the beginning of this moneth the citie of London set foorth a thousand soldiors of archers,The Londo|ners set foorth a power into France. har|quebutters, pikes, and bils, which went to Douer, and so passed ouer vnto Calis, to serue the king in his wars on that side the seas.The death of the valiant lord Poi|nings. In the same moneth that valiant capteine sir Thomas Poinings knight, lord Poinings, and the kings lieutenant of his towne and marches of Bullogne departed this life, after he had to his great honor atchiued manie woor|thie enterprises in seruice of his prince against the enimies, so that his death was much lamented. A gentleman vndoubtedlie deseruing to be had in per|petuall memorie: and pitie it is, that diuerse such va|liant feats as he in his life time atchiued, were not committed to writing, to remaine for examples sake to posteritie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Also in the same moneth at Guilford died the noble and valiant duke of Suffolke Charles Brandon lord great maister of the kings houshold,The death of the duke of Suffolke. a right hardie gentleman, and yet not so hardie, as almost of all e|stats and degrees of men, high & low, rich and poore, hartilie beloued, & his death of them greatlie lamen|ted: his bodie was honorablie buried at Windsore, at the kings costs.His iust com|mendation. This man in his daies had doone to the king and realme right agreeable seruices, as well in peace, as in wars, both in England, France, Scotland, and Ireland, he died the kings generall lieutenant of his armie then appointed to resist the Frenchmen, if they durst haue landed.