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Fitz|girald earle of Kildare, son to Thomas Fitz|girald, of whõ mention hath béene made in the latter end
of the former storie, a migh|tie man of sta|ture, full of ho|nor &
courage, who had béene de [...]e [...] iustice of Ireland first & last 33 yéeres, 1514 deceased at Kildare
the third of September, & lieth intoomed in the queere of Christes church at Dublin, in a chappell
by him founded. Betwéen him & Iames Butler earle of Ormond (their owne gelousies fed with enuie
& ambition, kindled with certeine lewd factious abettors of either
side) as generallie to all noblemen, so especiallie to both these houses verie incident, euer since the
ninth yeare of Henrie the seuenth, bred some trouble in Ireland. The plot of The occasion
of the dissen|tion betwéene Kildare and Ormond. which mutuall grudge was grounded vpon the
fac|tious dissention, that was raised in England be|tweene the houses of Yorke & Lancaster, Kildare
cleaning to Yorke, and Ormond relieng to Lanca|ster. To the vpholding of which discord, both these no|ble
men laboured with tooth and na [...]e to ouercrow, and consequentlie to ouerthrow one the other. And for
somuch as they were in honour peeres, they wrought by hooke and by crooke to be in authoritie superiours.
The gouernement therfore in the reigne of Henrie the seuenth, being cast on the house of Kil|dare; Iames
earle of Ormond a deepe and a farre reaching man, giuing backe like a butting ram to strike the harder push,
deuised to inueigle his aduer|sarie by submission & courtesie, being not then able to ouermatch him with stoutnesse or preheminence. Wherevpon Ormond addressed his letters
to the deputie, specifieng a slander raised on him and his, that he purposed to deface his gouernement, and
to withstand his authoritie. And for the cleering of him|selfe and of his adherents, so it stood with the
deputie his pleasure, he would make his spéedie repaire to Dublin, & there in an open audience would
purge himselfe of all such odious crimes, of which he was wrongfullie
suspected.
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reasonable request had the lord deputie no sooner condescended, than Ormond with a puis|sant armie marched
towards Dublin, incamping Ormond marcheth to Dublin. in an abbeie in the suburbs
of the citie, named saint Thomas court. The approching of so great an armie of the citizens suspected, and
also of Kildares coun|cellors greatlie disliked, lastlie the extortion that the lawlesse souldiers vsed in
the pale by seuerall com|plaints detected: these three points, with diuerse o|ther suspicious circumstances
laid and put togither, did minister occasion rather of further discord, than of anie present agreement.
Ormond persisting still in his humble sute, sent his messenger to the lord de|putie, declaring that he was
prest and readie to ac|complish the tenour of his letters, and there did at|tend (as became him) his
lordship his pleasure. And as for the companie, he brought with him from Mounster, albeit suspicious braines
did rather of a malicious craftinesse surmise the worst, than of cha|ritable wisedome did iudge the best;
yet notwithstan|ding, vpon conference had with his lordship, he would not doubt to satisfie him at full in
all points, wherewith he could be with anie colour charged, and so to stop vp the spring, from whense all
the enuious suspicions gushed. Kildare with this mild message intreated, appointed the méeting to be at
saint Pa|trike his church: where they were ripping vp one to another their mutuall quarrels, rather
recounting the damages they susteined, than acknowledging the iniuries they offered: the citizens and Ormond
The citie in an [...]. his armie fell at some iar, for the oppression and ex|action with which the souldiers
surcharged them. With whom as part of the citizens bickered, so a round knot of archers rushed into the
church, mea|ning to haue murthered Ormond, as the capteine and belwedder of all these lawlesse rabble. The
earle of Ormond suspecting that he had béene betraied, fled to the chapiter house, put to the doore,
sparring it with might and maine. The citizens in their rage, imagining that euerie post in the church had
beene one of the souldiers, shot hab or nab at randon vp to the roodlost and to the chancell, leauing some
of their arrowes sticking in the images.
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pursuing Ormond to the chapiter house doore, vndertooke on his honor that he should receiue no villanie.
Whervpon the recluse crauing his lord|ships hand to assure him his life, there was a clift in the chapiter
house doore, pearsed at a trise, to the end both the earles should haue shaken hands and be re|conciled. But
Ormond surmising that this drift was intended for some further treacherie, that if he would stretch out his
hand, it had béene percase chopt off, refused that proffer; vntill Kildare stretcht in his The earles reconciled. hand to him, and so the doore was opened, they both imbraced
the storme appeased, and all their quarrels for that present rather discontinued than ended. In this
garboile, one of the citizens, surnamed Blanch|field Blanchfield slaine. was
slaine. This latter quarrell being like a greene wound, rether bungerlie botcht than soundlie cured, in that
Kildare suspected that so great an ar|mie (which the other alledged to be brought for the EEBO page image 83
gard of his person) to haue béene of purpose assem|bled, to outface him & his power in his owne
coun|trie. And Ormond mistrusted, that this treacherous practise of the Dublinians was by Kildare deuised.
These and the like surmises lightlie by both the no|ble men misdéemed, and by the continuall twatling of
fliring clawbacks in their eares whispered, bred and fostered a malice betwixt them and their posteri|tie,
manie yeeres incurable, which caused much stur and vnquietnesse in the realme, vntill the confusion
of the one house and the nonage of the other ended and buried their
mutuall quarrels.