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, y^e 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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hauing marched neere Dublin,Meſsengers ſent to Dublin Trauerſe. Lince. Grace. hee ſente Doctor Trauerſe, Peter Lince of the knocke, and Oliuer Grace, as meſſengers (for I maye not rightly tearme them Ambaſſadors) to the Citizẽs, who croſſing the Liffy from the blacke Friers to the key, explayned to the Maior and Aldermen theyr errand, the effect whereof was, eyther to ſtand to their former promiſe, or elſe to reſtore to their Captayne his menne, that they wrongfully deteyned in goale.