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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In this ſorte was nominated to the Biſhop|rike of Dublin then voyde, in the yeere of Chriſt 1074.Goderius king of Leyniſter. at the petition of Goderius King of Ley|niſter by ſufferance of the Cleargie and people there,Terdienatus the Monarke. Patricius con|ſecrated Bi|ſhop of Du|blin by Lan|franke. with the aſſente of Terdienatus the Monarke, a learned Prelate called Patricius, whome Lanfranke of Canterbury conſecrated in Paules Churche at London, and ſware hym to obedience after the manner of his aunce|ſtors.