Compare 1587 edition: 1 Furthermore to ſatiſfie all ſydes, and auoyde contention, they concluded to fixe a mereſtone in the myddle poynte of Irelande, to the whiche eche of their kyngdomes ſhoulde reache, ſo as they myght bee equally partakers of the com|modities founde within that countrey ſoyle.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe are alſo ſuppoſed to haue inuented the diſtribution of ſhires into Cantredes,A cantred. euery can|tred or baronie conteyning one hundred town|ſhippes. At lengthe deſyre of ſoueraigntie ſette the fyue bretherne at variance,Deſire of ſoue|raintie cauſe of variance. and greatly hin|dered theyr growyng wealthes. But Slanius gettyng the vpper hande, and bringing his four brethren to a lowe ebbe, tooke vpon him as chiefe aboue his other brethren, encrochyng founde a|boute the myddle ſtone for the ſpace of certayne myles, whiche plotte in tyme obteyned the pri|uiledge and name of one entier parte, and nowe maketh vp the number of fyue partes, (into the whiche Irelande is ſayde to bee deuided) and is called Methe, and in Latine Media, taking that name (as ſome haue gueſſed) for that in reſpecte of the other, it conteyned bot the moytie of can| [...]redes, that is .xvj. (where eche of the other com|prehended .32. a peece) or elſe for that it lyeth in the EEBO page image 4 middeſt of the lande. This parte Slanius ioyned as a ſurpluſage ouer and aboue his inheritaunce, vnto the Monarchie, whiche parte notwithſtan|ding grewe to a ſeuerall kingdome. Thirtie yea|res the monarchie yet continued in this order, but finally Slanius departed this lyfe,Slanius depar|ted thy lyfe. and was bu|ryed in a mountayne of Meth, that beareth hy|therto (as they ſay) the name after him.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Then the Princes ſubiecte to him, beganne to ſtomacke the matter, and denied their obeyſaunce to his ſucceſſour, wherevpon enſued continuall warres betwixte them, falling ſtill at debate for the lande of Methe, whiche ſtrife of long tyme might neuer fully be appeaſed.