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You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 3 of 4: The ſeconde Booke of the Hiſtories of Irelande, in which the conqueſt made by Henry the ſecond of that name, King of Englande, is comprehended.
Snippet: 185 of 200 (1577, Volume 3, p. 48)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeere next enſuing, Iordayne Comin with his complices, ſlew Maritagh Oconghuir King of Offalie, and his brother Calwagh, with diuers other within the Courte of Peeres de Birmingham at Carrick in Carbrie. Alſo, Sir Gilberte Sutton, Stewarde of Wexfforde, was ſlayne by the Iriſhmen, neere to the Ferme of EEBO page image 49 Haymond de Grace, which Haymond bare him|ſelfe right valiantly in that fight, and in the ende through his great manhoode eſcaped.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 3 of 4: The ſeconde Booke of the Hiſtories of Irelande, in which the conqueſt made by Henry the ſecond of that name, King of Englande, is comprehended.
Snippet: 186 of 200 (1577, Volume 3, p. 49)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeere .1306.

1306

A diſcõfiture at Ofalie.

a great ſlaughter was made in Offalie neere to the Caſ [...]ell of Geſchil, the thirteenth day of Aprill vpon Oconchur and his friends by the [...]empeirs, in whiche place were ſlayne a great number of men. Alſo Obren king of Thomond was ſlayne. Moreouer, Donalde Og [...] Maccarthy ſlewe Donald Ruffe King of De [...]emond, and vpon the twelfth of May in the [...] of Meth, a great ouerthrow chanced to ye ſide of the Lord Peers Butler,Balimore brent. and Balymore in Leyniſter was brent by the Iriſh, where Hen|ry Calfe was ſlayne at that preſent time.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 3 of 4: The ſeconde Booke of the Hiſtories of Irelande, in which the conqueſt made by Henry the ſecond of that name, King of Englande, is comprehended.
Snippet: 187 of 200 (1577, Volume 3, p. 49)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hereof folowed great warres betwixt ye Eng|liſh and Iriſh in Leyniſter,Warres in Leyniſter. ſo that a great army was called togither forth of diuers partes of Ire|land, to reſtrayne the malice of the Iriſh in Ley|niſter, in which iourney, Sir Thomas Mande|uill Knight entred into a conflict with the Iriſh neere to Glenfell, in the whiche he bare hymſelfe right manfully, till his Horſe was ſlayne vnder him, and yet then to his greate prayſe and hyghe [figure appears here on page 49] commendation, he ſaued both himſelfe and many of his company

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