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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The firſt knew the way to thriue, might they get ſome commodious ſeates and ſoyle. The o|ther had commodities plentie, and cared not for them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 While the Princes and Potentates ſtayed vpon ſuche a good conſideration certayne Mer|chants of Norway, Denmarke, & of other thoſe parties called [...] or as in our vulgar lã|guage wee tearme them Eaſterlings) bycauſe they lie Eaſt in reſpect of vs,Eaſterlings began to trade into Irelande. although indeede they are by other named properly Normans and partly Saxons, obteyned licence ſafely to arriue here in Ireland with their wares, and to vtter the ſame.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Herevpon, the Iriſh, through traffike and bar|tering with theſe Normans or Danes (for ſo are they called alſo) in our Engliſh Chronicle (by exchanging of wares and money) finding them ciuill and tractable, and deliting alſo with gay concents brought into them by thoſe Merchãts (ſuch, as till they ſawe them) they neuer eſteemed needefull, they began to enter into a deſire, that a trade mighte be open betwixt them and the other nations where vpon, to allure other, they licenced theſe Merchãt ſtrangers to build,They builde townes on the Sea coaſts. if they thought good, hauen Townes in places moſt commodi|ons: this was no ſooner graunted, than begunne, and with ſpeede finiſhed.

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