[1] [2] As he was vpon the sea, certeine French pirats which laie lurking at the Thames mouth to watch for some preie,The king in danger to be taken by French pi|rats. got knowledge by some meanes (as was supposed) of the kings passage, and therevpon as he was in the middest of his course, they entred among his fléet, and tooke foure vessels next to the kings ship, and in one of the same vessels sir Thomas Rampston the kings vicechamberlaine,Sir Thomas Rampston ta|ken. with all his chamber stuffe and apparell. They followed the king so néere, that if his ship had not béene swift, he had landed sooner in France than in Essex: but such was his good hap,

The king es|caped through swiftnesse of his ship.

The lord Ca|mois put in blame.

that he escaped and arriued at his ap|pointed port. The lord Camois, that was comman|ded with certeine ships of warre to waft the king o|uer (whether the wind turned so that he could not kéepe his direct course, or that his ship was but a slug) ran so far in the kings displeasure, that he was attached & indited, for that (as was surmized against him) he had practised with the Frenchmen, that the king might by them haue béene taken in his passage.