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Compare 1587 edition: 1 During the tyme that Thomas with his ar|my was ranſacking the Earle of Oſſory hys lands,Frances Her|bert returneth from England. Francis Herbert returned from Englãd to Dublin with the Kyng and Counſells let|ters to Maiſter Shillingforth then Maior,Shillingforth. and his breethren, with letters likewiſe to maiſter White the Conſtable, to withſtande (as theyr duetie of allegiance bound them) the trayterous practiſes of Thomas and hys complices, & that with al ſpeede they ſhould be ſuccoured vpon the ſight of theſe letters.Thomas Fitz Simons. M. Thomas Fitz Simons EEBO page image 94 Recorder of the Citie, a Gentleman that ſhe|wed himſelfe a politique and a cõfortable Coũ|ſayler in theſe troubles, paraphraſing the Kyng his gratious letters, with diuers good and ſound conſtructions, emboldned the Citizens to breake their new made league,No league to be kept with Traytors. which with no Traytor was to be kept.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 The Aldermen and communaltie, wyth thys pithie perſwaſion eaſily weighed,The Dublini|ans breake with Thomas Fitz Girald. gaue forthwith order, that the gates ſhould be ſhutte, their perculliſſes diſmounted, the Traitors that beſieged the Caſtell apprehended, flagges of defyance vpon their walles placed, and an opẽ breach of truce proclaymed. Field and his com|panyes (who did not all this while batter aught of the Caſtell, but only one hole that was bored through the gate with a pellet, which lighted in the mouth of a demy Canon, planted within the Caſtell) vnderſtanding that they were be|trayed, beganne to ſhrinke their heads, truſtyng more to their hecles than to their weapõs, ſome ranne one way,Field and his company taken. ſome another, diuers thoughte to haue bin houſed, and ſo to lurke in Lorelles denne, who where thruſt out by the head and ſhoulders: few of them ſwamme ouer the Liffy, ye greater number takẽ and empriſoned. Forth|with poſt vppon poſt rode to Thomas Fitz Gi|rald, who then was rifling the Countrey of Kilkenny, certifying him that all was marde, the fat was in the fire, he brought an olde houſe about his owne cares, the Paltockes of Dublin kept not touche with him, the engliſh army was ready to bee ſhipt, Herbert with the Kyng hys letters returned, now it ſtoode him vpon to ſhew himſelfe a man or a mouſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thomas with theſe tidings amazed, made ſpeedy repaire to Dublin, ſending his Purſenãts before hym, to commaunde the Gentlemen of the Engliſhe pale to meete hym with all theyr power neere Dublin. And in his way towards the Citie,The youth of Dublin taken priſoners. hys company tooke diuers children of the Dublinians, that kepte in the Countrey, (by reaſon of the contagion that then was in the Towne) namely Michaell Fitz Simons, Patricke Fitz Simons, William Fitz Simõs, all ſonnes to Walter Fitz Simons late Maior, at whiche tyme was alſo taken Iames Stan|hurſt, with diuers other yonglings of the Ci|tie.

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