[1] [2] [3] After this, the eighteenth of Iulie the admerall of France monsieur Danebalte hoised vp sailes,

The French [...] landeth in the Ile of Wight.

The French|men land in Sussex.

and with his whole nauie came foorth into the seas, and arriued on the coast of Sussex before bright Ham|stéed, and set certeine of his soldiors on land, to burne and spoile the countrie: but the beacons were fired, & the inhabitants thereabouts came downe so thicke, that the Frenchmen were driuen to flie with losse of diuerse of their numbers: so that they did little hurt there. Immediatlie herevpon they made to the point of the Ile of Wight, called saint Helens point, and there in good order vpon their arriuall they cast an|chors, and sent dailie sixtéene of their gallies to the verie hauen of Portesmouth. The English nauie li|eng there in the same hauen, made them readie, and set out toward the enimies, and still the one shot hot|lie at the other: but the wind was so calme, that the kings ships could beare no saile, which greatlie grie|ued the minds of the Englishmen, and made the eni|mies more bold to approch with their gallies, and to assaile the ships with their shot euen within the ha|uen.