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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The meſſengers deliuered to the Citizens Doctor Trauerſe and others,Doctor Tra|uerſe. Talbot. Rochforde Rery. the Citizens deli|uered them Richard Talbot, Aldreman, Roch|ford and Rery.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe were committed to the cuſtody of Dauid Sutton of Rabride,Dauid Sutton. who redeliuered thẽ to the Citizens, immediately after vpon the cer|tayne rumour of Skeffington his repaire.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thomas growen to thys poynte with the Dublinians, rayſed his ſiege, cauſed his artille|rie to be cõueyd to Howeh matching after with his army, to the ende he might well as bulche the Engliſh Shippes, if they durſt auerre the coaſt, as to bicket with the Souldiers vpon their arri|uall. But before he toke his iourney to Howeth, he rode to Maynoth, to ſee that the Caſtell ſhuld be of all ſides fortifyed, where being done to vn|derſtand, that a companye of white coſes,The white coates land at Dublin. with redde croſſes, landed at Dublin ſecretely in the dead of the night, and alſo that another band a|riued at Howeth, and were ready to marche to|wardes Dublin, hee poſted incontinently wyth two hundred Horſemen towardes the water ſyde, encountred neere Clontarfe, the Hamer|tons, two valiant and couragious Gentlemen,The Hamer|tones ſlayne. hauing in theyr company foureſcore Souldy|ers, where they foughte ſo valiantly for theyr liues, as ſo fewe footemen coulde haue done a|gainſte ſo greate a troupe of Horſemen: for they did not onely mangle and backe dyuers of the Rebelles,

Thomas Fitz Girald wound|ed.

Mooſgraue.

but alſo one of the Hamertones woũ|ded Thomas Fitz Girald in the forehead.

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