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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Henry White rayſed an vp| [...]re in DublinIn the ſeconde yeare of Skeffington his go|uernment, it happened that one Henrie White, ſeruant to Benet a Marchant of Dublyn, was pitching of a Cart of hay in the high ſtreete, and hauing offred boyes play to paſſengers that wal|ked to and fro, he let a bottle of his hay fall on a ſouldiers Bonet, as he paſt by his Cart: the ſoul|diour taking this knauiſhe knacke in dudgeon, burled his Dagger at him, and hauing narowly miſt the princocks, he ſticked it in a poſt not farre off. White leapt downe from the Cart, and thruſt the ſouldiour through the ſhoulder wyth hys pyke. Wherevpon there was a great vprore in the Citie, betwene the Souldiours and the ap|prentiſes, inſomuch as Thomas Barby beyng the Maior,Thomas Bar|by Maior. hauing the King his ſworde drawne, was hardly able to appeaſe the fray, in which dy|uerſe were wounded, and none ſlaine.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Lorde Deputie iſſued out of the Caſtel, and came as farre as the Pyllorie, to whome the Maior poſted through the preaſe with the ſworde naked vnder his arme, and preſented White that was ye brewer of all this garboyl to his Lordſhip whom the Gouernour pardoned,White par|doned. as well for hys courage in bickering, as for his retchles ſimplicity and pleaſantneſſe in telling the whole diſcourſe. Wherby a man may ſee how many bloudie qua|rels, a brawling ſwaſhbuckler may pyke out of a bottle of bay, namely when his braynes are fore|bitten with a bottle of nappie Al [...].

Compare 1587 edition: 1 About this time ther was a great ſturre reiſed in Englãd, about the king his diuorſe, who thin|king it expedient in ſo fickle a worlde to haue a ſure poſt in Irelande,Kildare Lorde Deputie Croommer Butler. made Kildare Lorde De|putie, Croommer, the Primate of Armach, Lorde Chancellour, and ſir Iames Butler Lord Trea|ſorer.

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