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1 Then by the help and
counſell of theſe men, many Caſtels, Fortes, Steeples, and Churches euery where
were repaired. And thus are the I|riſhe mingled alſo with the bloud of the
Danes, Norwegians or Normans, who from thence|foorth continually flocked into Irelande, to the greate commoditie
of the inhabitants, liuing a|mongſt them obediently, till welth pricked and
moued them to reyſe rebellion, but they could not haue holden out, had not the
conqueſt enſuing de|termined both their quarrels.The
Merchant ſtrãgers moue Rebellion. In the meane while they became
Lordes of the hauens and burrowe townes, planted men of warre in the ſame, and
oftentimes ſkirmiſhed with their aduerſaries, but yet meaſured their fortune
with indifferent gain, and exept no higher than the ſame woulde gyue them
leaue,The fielde of Clontars. onely a memorie is
left of their fielde in Clontars, where diuers of the Iriſhe nobilitie were
ſlayne, that lie buried before the Croſſe of Kylmaynã. Theſe are by our author
not with|out good iudgemẽt reported to be Danes, which people then beeing
Paganes, ſore afflicted Eng|lande, and after that France, from whence they came
again into England with William Con|queror, ſo that thoſe people called
Ostomanni, E|ſterlings, Normãs, Danes, Norwegiãs, &
Sue|deners, are in effect al one nation, borne in yt huge EEBO page image 20 region called Scandinauia,
The ſeuerall names of the ſtrangers, whi|che in theſe dayes afflicted
France, Eng|land, Scotland and Irelande. 1095
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Long before this tyme (as ye haue heard) Ire|lande was beſtowed into two principall king|domes, and ſometime into more, whereof one was euer elected and reputed to be chiefe, and as it were a Monarke, whome in their Hiſtories they name Maximum Regem, that is, the greateſt King,Maximus Rex The great king or Mo|narke of Ire|lande. or elſe without addition, Regem Hiberniae, the King of Ireland, the other they name Reguli or Reges, that is to witte, ſmall Kings, or elſe kings, by limitting the places wherof they were, to be reputed Kings, as of Leyniſter, Connagh, Vlſter, Monſter, or Meth.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 To the Monarke beſides hys allowance of Dominion, titles of honor, and other priuileges in iuriſdiction, there was graunted to him a ne|gatiue in nomination of Biſhops when they were vacant:The power of the Monarke in election of Biſhops. for the Cleargie and laitie of the di|oces commended one, whome they thought con|ueniente vnto their King, the King to the Mo|narke, the Monarke to the Archbiſhop of Can|terbury: for that as yet the Metropolitanes of Ireland had not receyued their paſſes.