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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Heruie de Monte Mau|riſco.To Heruie de Monte Mauriſco, he gaue two Canthredes that lie betwixt ye townes of Wex|ford and Waterfourde, alongſt by the Sea ſide, to hold the ſame in fee.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this, they gote togither to the number of three thouſand mẽ, with the ſupply of ye towneſ|men of Wexforde, and marched foorth towardes the vpper Oſſorie, to be reuenged of the Lordes there, that had ſhewed themſelues moſt cruell and ſpitefull of all other towards the king in time of his troubles and baniſhment.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 The chiefe gouernour of that quarter named Duneuald,Duneuald a prince of the vpper Oſſorie. gathering togither the people to de|fende their countrey, was trayned foorth into the playnes and harde grounde, where with a violent charge of the horſemen, his army was eaſily diſ|comfited and broken in peeces, ſo that the Iriſhe [figure appears here on page 23] footemen following, and comming in among them, ſlew thoſe that they found borne downe by the horſemen, and brought two hundred of theyr heads whiche they had cut off, and threw them downe at Dermote his foote.The valiancie of Robert de Barre, and Meller, Ne|phewes to Fitz Stephan. The valiancie of two yong Gentlemen appeared greatly in thys exployt, the one called Robert de Barre, and the other Meiller, both Nephewes to Fitz Stephan, the one by hys brother, and the other by hys ſiſter.

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