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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Girald Fitz Girald,The Earle of Kildare Lorde Deputie. ſonne and heire to the a|foreſayd Earle of Kildare, was ſhortly after his father his deceaſſe, conſtituted Lorde Deputie of Irelande, before whome, in the ſeuenth yeare of Henry the eyght,A Parliamente holden at Dublin. there was a Parliamente holden at Dublin, wherein it was eſtabliſhed, that al ſuch, as bring out of England the kings letters of priuate ſeale, for particular cauſes a|gainſt any of the King his ſubiects in Irelande, ſhoulde finde ſufficient ſureties in the King hys Chancerie in Ireland, to bee bound by recogni|ſance, that the playntife ſhall ſatiſfye the de|fendante, that purgeth or acquiteth himſelfe of the matter to hym alledged for hys coſtes and damages ſuſteyned by ſuche wrongfull vexa|tion.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This noble man being valiant and well ſpo|ken, was nothing inferioure to hys father in martiall proweſſe, chaſing in the time of his go|uernemẽt the family of the tooles, battering O|Carrell his Caſtels, and bringing in awe all the Iriſh of the land.

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