[1] _LEauing at the conquest of Ireland penned by Giraldus Cambrensis, we are now to pro|ceed in that which followeth: wherin our authour (as he himselfe writeth) vsed such notes as were written by one Philip Flats|burie, out of a certeine namelesse author, from this place vnto the yeare 1370: and we hauing none other helpe besides (ex|cept onelie Henrie of Marleborow) do set downe that which we find in our oft mentioned authour, and in the same Marleborow in all the whole discourse that followeth, except in some cer|teine particular places, where we shew from whense we haue drawne that which we write as occasion serueth.