Compare 1577 edition: 1 Philip earle of Flanders by sending ouer ambas|sadours to king Henrie,Philip earle of Flanders. promised that he would not bestow his two néeces, daughters to his brother Matthew earle of Bullongne, without consent of the same king: but shortlie after he forgot his pro|mise, & married the elder of them to the duke of Za|ringes, & the yoonger to Henrie duke of Louaine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Iohn de Curcie lord cheefe iustice of Ireland dis|comfiting a power of Irishmen, wan the citie of Dun in Ulnestre,Iohn de Curcie. where the bodies of S. Patrike and S. Colme confessors, and S. Brigit the virgin are buried, for the taking of which citie, Roderike king of Ulnestre being sore offended, raised a migh|tie host,Roderike K. of Ulnestre vanquished. and comming into the field, fought with the lord cheefe iustice, and in the end receiued & tooke the ouerthrow at his hands, although the lord cheefe iu|stice at that encounter lost no small number of his men. Amongst prisoners that were taken, the bishop of Dun was one, whom yet the lord cheefe iustice re|leased and set at libertie, in respect of a request and suit made to him by a cardinall the popes legat that was there in Ireland at that time.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Uiuiano a cardinall.This cardinals name was Uiuiano, intituled the cardinall of S. Stephan in Mount Celio; he was sent from the pope the yeare before, and comming in|to England, though without licence, was pardoned vpon knowledging his fault for his entring without the kings leaue first obteined, and so permitted to go into Scotland, whither (as also into other the north|west regions) he was sent as legat, authorised from the pope. Now when he had ended his businesse in Scotland, he passed ouer into Man, and there held his Christmasse with Euthred king of Man, and af|ter the feast of the Epiphanie, sailed from thence in|to Ireland, and chanced (the same time that the Eng|lishmen inuaded that countrie) to be in the citie of Dun, [...] Paruus. where he was receiued of the king & bishops of that land with great reuerence.