Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 When the king of Spaine vnderstood of that trea|tie, he began to doubt, least if that marriage tooke place, it might turne to his disaduantage; and there|fore to be at quietnesse with the duke of Lancaster, whose puissance he doubted, and whose wisedome he perfectlie vnderstood, by politike meanes and earnest sute, at length concluded a peace with him on this wise;A marriage concluded be|tweéne the prince of Spaine, and the duke of Lancasters daughter. That his eldest son Henrie should haue in ma|riage the ladie Katharine daughter to the duke of Lancaster, begot on his wife the duchesse Constance, and be intituled prince of Austurgus. In considera|tion of which marriage to be had, and all claimes to ceasse, which the duke in right of his wife might cha|lenge or pretend; it was agreed, that the said duke should receiue yearelie the summe of ten thousand marks, to be paid to him, Fabian. or to his assignes in the ci|tie of Baionne in Gascoigne, during the terme of the liues of the said duke and duchesse; and further to haue in hand the summe of two hundreth thousand nobles. Ab. Fl. out of Henrie Knigh|ton canon of Leicester abbeie. ¶ Henrie Knighton in his relation of this composition betwéene these persons of great estate, dooth say, that it was told him by one of the good duke of Lancasters owne houshold, and attendant vpon him in this voiage into Spaine, that the Spanish king did send seuen and fourtie mules loden with coffers full of gold for the second paiment wherevpon they were agréed. As touching the first paiment (saith Knighton) I asked no question of the partie. So that (besides the annuitie, which mine author reporteth to be 16000 marks, during the parties liues iointlie, and 12000 marks, if it fortuned that the dukes daughter should suruiue and outliue hir husband) it should séeme there were other large allowances, which if they were (as it is likelie) after this rate, it was a right roiall munificence. And to this report of Knighton dooth Ch. Okland make a kind of allusi|on, who speking of the conditions of peace betweene the duke of Lancaster, and the king of Spaine, saith:
EEBO page image 451 The aforesaid agreement and marriage was not concluded, till about the thirteenth yeare of king Ri|chards reigne, so that in the meane while manie inci|dents chanced in England and in other regions, which in their time and places shall be touched, as to purpose serueth.Causae diffidens extemplò Hispanus,In Angl. [...] sub Rich. 2. agebatDe pace, acceptis & conditionibus, offertArgenti ac auri plaustrorum protinùs octoIustum onus, argentíque decem soluenda quotannisMillia nummorum, &c.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 And first it is not to be forgotten, that the French|men neuer shewed more vanitie than they did this yeare, Iacob. Meir. Froissard. since the linage of the Capetes began first to rule in France. All the ships that they could prouide from the confines of Spaine, vnto the mouth of the Rhene, all alongst the coast, they assembled at Sluis and thereabouts, and made so great preparation for the warre, that the like had not béene heard of (mea|ning, as they boasted, and made their vants) to passe ouer into England, and to deuoure the whole coun|trie, in dooing sacrifice to the soules of their elders with the bloud of the English people. Howbeit these words were wind, & to them accorded the prouerbe,
Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.There were numbred in the moneth of September about Sluis,A mightie great nauie of French ships at Sluis pur|posing to in|uade Englãd. Dam, and Blankberke 1287 ships, besides those which were rigged in Britaine by the constable, who had caused an inclosure of a field to be made of timber, like railes or barriers, that when they were landed in England, they might there|with inclose their field, and so lodge more at suertie, and when they remooued, it was so made with ioints, that they might take it vp in péeces and easilie con|ueie it with them.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The descrip|tion of the inclosure.This inclosure or wall of wood was twentie foot in height, and conteined in length or in compasse, when it was set vp, three thousand pases, and at the end of euerie twelue pases stood a turret able to receiue ten men, that was higher than the rest of the wall by ten foot at the least. There were appointed to haue passed ouer in those ships twentie thousand men of armes, Thom. Wals. twentie thousand crosbowes, and twentie thousand other men of warre. To haue séene the great apparell, furniture and prouision, the shipping, trussing, bearing, and carrieng to and fro of things needfull for this iournie, a man might haue meruel|led; for suerlie the like hath sildome beene remem|bred. Tho. Walsi. All that was doone there on that side the sea by the Frenchmen, was notified into England, so that the Frenchmen were not more occupied to prepare themselues to inuade England, than the English|men were to make themselues readie to defend their countrie from all danger of enimies;The prouisi|on of ye Eng|lishmen to resist ye great power of Frenchmen. so that euerie hauen towne, especiallie alongst the west, south, and eastcoasts, were kept and warded with notable num|bers of armed men and archers.