Compare 1587 edition: 1 To this miſerable end grew this lewd rebel|lion, which turned to y^e vtter vndoing of diuerſe auncient Gentlemen, who trayned with fayre wordes into a fooles Paradice, were not onely diſpoſſeſſed of theyr landes, but alſo depriued of theyr lyues, or elſe forced to forſake theyr coun|treys.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thomas Fitz Girald was not Earle of Kil|dare.As for Thomas Fitz Giralde, who (as I wrote before) was executed at Tyburne, I would wiſh the carefull Reader, to vnderſtand that he was neuer Earle of Kildare, although ſome wryters, rather of error than of malice,Stow. Pa. 434. tearme him by that name. For it is knowne that his father lyued in the Towre, when hee was in open Rebellion, where for thought of the yong man his follye hee dyed, and therefore Thomas was attaynted in a Parliament hol|den at Dublyn, as one that was deemed, repu|ted, and taken for a traytour before his fathers deceaſſe, by the bare name of Thomas Fitz Giralde. For this hath beene obſerued by the Iriſh Hyſtoriographers euer ſince the conqueſt,No Earle of Kildare bare armour at any time agaynſt his prince. that notwithſtanding all the preſumptions of treaſon wherewith any Earle of Kyldare coulde eyther faintly be ſuſpected, or vehemently charged, yet there was neuer any Erle of that houſe read or heard of, that bare armour in the fielde agaynſt his Prince. Which I write not as a barriſter hyred to pleade theyr cauſe, but as a Chronicler mooued to declare the truth.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Thomas Fitz Giralde,The deſcrip|tion of Tho|mas Fitz Gi|ralde. as before is ſpecified, was borne in Englande, vpon whom nature poured beautie, and fortune by byrth be|ſtowed Nobilitie, which had it beene well em|ployed, and were it not, that his rare gyftes had bene blemiſhed by his later euill qualities, hee would haue proued an ympe worthie to bee en|graft in ſo honourable a ſtocke. Hee was of ſtature tall and perſonable, in countenance ami|able, a white face, and withall ſomewhat ruddie, delicately in eche lymme featured, a rolling EEBO page image 102 tongue and a riche vtterance, of nature flexible and kinde, verie ſoone caryed where hee fanſied, eaſily with ſubmiſſion appeaſed, hardly wyth ſtubbornneſſe weyed, in matters of importance an headlong hoteſpurre, yet natheleſſe taken for a yong man not deuoyde of witte, were it not, as it fell out in the ende, that a foole had the kee|ping thereof.