[1] About the beginning of March in this tenth yeere, Richard earle of Arundell, being appointed lord ad|merall,The earle of Arundell go|eth to the sea with 500 men of armes and a thousand ar|chers as Frois|sard noteth. & Thomas Mowbraie earle of Notingham, the earle of Deuonshire, and the bishop of Norwich (as Froissard saith) went to the sea with a warlike power of men of armes and archers, so well trimmed and appointed as was possible. For the lord admerall vnderstanding that the duke of Glocester, and ma|nie other noblemen would sée the muster of his men, vsed all diligence, and spared for no costs, to haue the most choisest and pikedst fellowes that might be got|ten, not following the euill example of others in times past, which receiued tag and rag to fill vp their numbers,A great abuse in choise of souldiers. whom they hired for small wages, and re|serued the residue to their pursses. And when to the aduancement of the realms commoditie they should haue incountered the enimies, they shifted off all oc|casions thereto, and onelie prolonged time, without atchiuing any enterprise auaileable, to the end they might receiue the whole wages, and kéepe themselues from danger, which they should hardlie haue auoi|ded, when they had not about them such able men as were like to match the enimies: but the earle of A|rundell contrarilie got the ablest men he might, not sparing his owne pursse, to the end that by their ser|uice he might atchiue some worthie enterprise, to re|dound vnto the commoditie of his countrie.