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You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 3 of 4: The ſeconde Booke of the Hiſtories of Irelande, in which the conqueſt made by Henry the ſecond of that name, King of Englande, is comprehended.
Snippet: 111 of 200 (1577, Volume 3, p. 38)

Fitz Stephans was a man of a large and ſound body, of a right ſeemely countenance, of ſtature ſomwhat exceeding the common ſort, bountifull, liberall, and pleaſant, but giuen to wine and wo|men aboue all meaſure.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 3 of 4: The ſeconde Booke of the Hiſtories of Irelande, in which the conqueſt made by Henry the ſecond of that name, King of Englande, is comprehended.
Snippet: 112 of 200 (1577, Volume 3, p. 38)

Thus much of theſe gentlemen, being accoun|ted among the chiefe of thoſe Captaynes that cõ|quered Ireland. Of Earle Strangbow hath bene ſayde before, of Curcy and Lacie ye ſhall heare partly hereafter.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 3 of 4: The ſeconde Booke of the Hiſtories of Irelande, in which the conqueſt made by Henry the ſecond of that name, King of Englande, is comprehended.
Snippet: 113 of 200 (1577, Volume 3, p. 38)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But now to returne where we left: The firſt attempt that Fitz Aldelme made to the hynde|rance of that progenie,

Maurice Fitz Gerald depar|teth this life.

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was agaynſt the ſonnes of Maurice Fitz Gerald, taking occaſion by the de|ceaſſe of the ſame Maurice, who departed this life about the Calendes of September.

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