Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About two of the clocke the next daie at after noone, being the seuenth of Ianuarie,The poorest & meanest sort [...]o [...]ded out of Calis. a great number of the meanest sort were suffered to passe out of the towne in safetie, being garded through the armie with a number of Scotish light horssemen, who vsed the Englishmen verie well and friendlie: and after this euerie daie for the space of thrée or foure daies togither, there were sent awaie diuerse companies of them till all were auoided, those only excepted that were appointed to be reserued for prisoners, as the lord Wentworth, & others. There were in the towne of Calis fiue hundred English souldiors ordinarie,Garison of soldiors that were in Calis and no more: and of the townesmen not fullie two hundred fighting men (a small garison for the defense of such a towne) and there were in the whole number of men, women, and children (as they were accoun|ted when they went out of the gate) foure thousand and two hundred persons. But the Lord Went|worth deputie of Calis, sir Rafe Chamberleine cap|teine of the castell, Iohn Harlston capteine of Rice|banke, Nicholas Alexander capteine of Newnam|bridge, Edward Grimstone the comptrollor, Iohn Rogers surueior, with others, to the number of fiftie (as aforesaid) such as it pleased the duke of Guise to appoint, were sent prisoners into France.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Thus haue ye heard the discourse of the ouerthrow and losse of the towne of Calis,Calis conque|red and lost in lesse than eight daies. the which enterprise was begun and ended in lesse than eight daies, to the great maruell of the world that a towne of such strength, and so well furnished of all things as that was (sufficient numbers of men of warre onlie ex|cepted) should so suddenlie be taken and conquered, but most speciallie in the winter season, what time all the countrie about (being marish ground) is com|monly ouerflowne with water. The said towne was woon from the French king by K. Edward the third,How long Ca+lis was in possession of the kings of England. in the time of Philip de Ualois then French king: and being in possession of the kings of England two hundred and eleuen yeares, was in the time of Phi|lip and Marie king & queene of England lost within lesse than eight daies: being the most notable fort that England had. For the winning whereof, king Edward aforesaid, in the 21 yeare of his reigne, was faine to continue a siege eleuen moneths and more. Wherefore it was iudged of all men, that it could not haue come so to passe, without some secret tre|cherie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Here is also to be noted, that when queene Marie and hir councell heard crediblie of the Frenchmens sudden approch to that towne,As good neuer as too late. she with all spéed possi|ble (but somewhat too late) raised a great power for the rescue thereof; the which comming to Douer, stai|ed thereabouts till the towne was woone, either for that their whole number was not come togither, or for that there were not ships readie sufficient to passe them ouer, although the wind and weather serued ve|rie well to haue transported them thither, till the sun|daie at night after the towne was deliuered: for then began a maruellous sore and rigorous tempest,A terrible tempest. con|tinuing the space of foure or fiue daies togither, that the like had not béene seene in the remembrance of man. Rich. Grafton. Wherefore some said that the same came to passe through necromancie, and that the diuell was raised vp and become French, the truth whereof is knowne (saith maister Grafton) to God. True it is that after the said tempest began, for the time it la|sted, no ship could well brooke the seas, by reason of the outragious storms. And such of the quéenes ships as did then aduenture the passage,The quéenes ships sore sha|ken with storme and tempest. were so shaken and torne with the violence of the weather, that they were forced to returne in great danger, & not with|out losse of all their tackle and furniture: so that if this tempestuous weather had not chanced, it was thought that the armie should haue passed to haue gi|uen some succors to Guisnes, and to haue attempted the recouerie of Calis.