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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The king crediting ſuch reports,Foure Com|miſſioners ſent into Ire|lãd to enquire of Reymondes demeanor. ſent ouer foure commiſſioners into Ireland to examine the mat|ter, & to make a true certificat of the ſtate of that land. The names of thoſe commiſſioners were theſe, Robert Poer, Oſbert de Herloter, Adam de Gernemuth, and William de Bendenges. Two of them he appoynted to returne backe, & to bring Reymonde with them: the other two hee com|maunded to remaine there with the Erle.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 As Reymond then was readie to paſſe the ſea to come ouer, ſtaying only for a proſperous wind, there came meſſengers from them that lay in Ly|merike,Donald Prince of Thomond. bringing word yt Donald prince of Tho|mond had beſieged thẽ with an infinit multitude of people, and bycauſe they had ſpent all their pro|uiſiõ of vitails, there was no remedie but to ſuccor EEBO page image 36 them with ſpeed, for otherwiſe they could not en|dure agaynſt the force of their aduerſaies.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Earle carefull to ſend ayde to relieue his men thus brought into that extremitie, vpon mo|uing the matter to his men of warre, whome he ment to ſent forward about that enterpriſe,The loue which the ſol|diers bare to Reymond. hee found them ſo diſmayd for the departing of Rey|monde, that with one generall voyce they flatly denied to go on that iourney without him.

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