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Compare 1587 edition: 1 No maruayle if this ſucceſſe were a corſy to the aduerſe part, which the longer it held aloofe, and bit the bridle, the more egerly it followed the courſe, hauing once gote ſcope and roomth at wyll, as ſhall bee heereafter at full decla|red.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ormond bearing in minde the treachery of the Dublinians,The Dubli|nians accuſed. procured ſuch as were the gra|ueſt Prelates of his Cleargie, to intimate to the Court of Rome the heatheniſh riot of the Citi|zens of Dublin in ruſhing into the Churche ar|med, polluting with ſlaughter the conſecrated place, defacing the Images, proſtrating the re|liques, racing downe Aultars, with barbarous outcries, more like miſcreante Sarazens, than Chriſtian Catholiques.A Legate ſente from Rome. Wherevppon, a Le|gate was poſted to Ireland, bending his courſe to Dublin, where ſoone after, he was ſolemnely receyued by Walter Fitz Simons,Walter Fitz Simons. Archbyſhop of Dublin, a graue Prelate, for hys learnyng and wiſedome choſen to be one of King Henry the ſeuenth hys Chaplaynes, in which vocation hee continued twelue yeares, and after was ad|uanced to be Archbyſhop of Dublin.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Legate vppon his arriuall, indicted the Citie for his execrable offence: but at length, by the procurement as well of the Archbyſhoppe as of all the Cleargie, hee was weighed to gyue the Citizens abſolutiõ,Penaunce en|ioyned to the Citizens of Dublin. with this caueat, that in deteſtation of ſo horrible a fact, and ad perpetu|am rei memoriam, the Maior of Dublin ſhould goe barefooted through the Citie in open Pro|ceſſion before the Sacrament, on Corpus Chri|ſti day, whyche penitente ſatiſfaction was af|ter in euerye ſuche Proceſſion duely accompli|ſhed.

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