About this yong gentleman were placed ſer|uants & Counſellers of three ſundry ſortes,Counſellers about the lord Iohn the kings ſonne. fyrſt Normãs great quaffers, ſlouthful perſõs, prowd, gluttons, trayned vp in extorcions & briberie, to whom he moſt leaned. Secondly Engliſh men, that went ouer with him, bad ynough and vn|ſkilfull. Thirdly the Engliſhe men whiche hee founde in the land, whom being beſt worthy and moſte forwarde in all good ſeruice, hee leaſt re|garded.

Hereof ſprung factions and diſdaine, ſo that the knightes whiche were moſte valiant and rea|dieſt to doe their duetyes, were greatly diſcoura|ged, and the enimies in hope highly recomforted.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 With the bruite of his arriual at Waterforde, the kings of Thomond, Deſmõd, and Connagh, put themſelues in order after the braueſt maner they could to meete him, and to ſubmitte theyr Countreys to his grace. Before they came the Iriſh franklins with rich preſents (and as they are verie kynde hearted where they are willing to ſhew obedience) made vnto the childe their ſoue|raine Lorde, the moſt ioy and gladneſſe that might bee, and though rudely, yet louingly, and EEBO page image 41 after the vſage of their countrey offered to kiſſe him after ſuch a friendly familiaritie as they were accuſtomed to ſhewe towardes their Princes at home.The lacke of diſcretion in two of his garde. Two Normans that were of the garde pikethankes, and diſdaynefull clawbackes ſhooke and put backe the Clownes very roughly, tea|ring them by their clibbe heads and beardes chur|liſhly and vnmannerly, thruſting them out of preſence, whome they ſhoulde rather haue borne with, and curteouſly inſtructed. The Iriſhmen thus miſuſed, went againſt the forenamed kings, ſhewed the rebukes and villanies done to them in recompence of their humbleneſſe and meeke de|meanor, declaring playnely, that their Lorde to whome they were going to do honor, was but a boy, peeuiſh and inſolente, gouerned by a ſorte of yong flattering bribers, that ſith to them whyche were buxome and tractable, ſuch deſpite and diſ|honor (for that tearme they vſed, hauing borro|wed it of the Spanyardes) little good mighte the ſtates of Irelande looke for in continuance, when the Engliſh once had yoked thẽ and pawed them in their clouches. This reporte lightly alienated the mindes of thoſe princes, not yet very reſolute, and turned them with greate othes and leagues concluded among them ſelues, and cauſed alſo the mightieſt Captaynes elſewhere to ſticke to|gither, couenanting not to giue ouer whileſt their liues laſted for any manner earthly thing, but manfully to ſtande in defence of their aunciente liberties. Immediately herevpõ, ſeditious ſturres,Commotions reyſed. mutinies, and commotions were reyſed in ſun|dry partes, ſo that the yong gentleman and hys company were glad to referre the quieting of ſuch broyles vnto Lacie, Brews, Curcy, Fitz Gerald and others, he himſelfe returned backe into Eng|land the ſame yeere he came,The Lorde Iohn retur|neth into Englande. leauing the Realme by a great deale in worſe plight than he found it. Thus farre Cambrenſis, and now for that which followeth: Our Authour (as he himſelfe writeth) vſed ſuche notes as were written by one Philip Flatſburie, out of a certayne nameleſſe authour,Giraldus Cambrenſis endeth his Chronicle. from this place vnto the yerre .1370. and wee ha|uing none other helpe beſide (except only Henry of Marlebourrow,) do ſet downe that whiche wee finde in our oftmentioned authour, and in y^e ſame Marleburgh in all the whole diſcourſe that fol|loweth, excepte in ſome certayne particuler pla|ces, where we ſhew from whence we haue drawẽ that whiche we write as occaſion ſerueth. To proceede then with the matter where we left, La|cie the rather to meete with ſuche hurlyburlies as were like to put the ſtate of the countrey in dan|ger if the ſame were not the ſooner broughte to quiet, erected and built a number of Caſtels in places conuenient, well and ſufficiently garni|ſhed with men munitions and vitayles, as one at Derwath,A Caſtel built at Derwath. where diuers of the Iriſh prayed to be [figure appears here on page 41] ſet a worke for wages.