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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Deputie returneth to Dublin Thomas Fitz Girald mar|cheth towards Maynoth.The Deputie hauing left a garriſon in y^e Ca|ſtell, returned with the army triumphantly to Dublin. Thomas Fitz Girald not miſdoubting but ſuche as hee left in the Caſtell were able to ſtand to their tacklings, leuied an huge army in Oconoure his Countrey, and in Connaght, to the number of ſeuen thouſande, marching with them towards Maynoth, minding to haue re|moued the king his army from the ſiege, but be|ing certified, that Pareſe his foſter brother, yeel|ded vppe the Caſtell to the Deputie, the better part of his company gaue him the ſlippe Al this notwithſtanding he made with ſuch as woulde ſticke to him to Clane.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Lord Deputie hauing intelligence of his approch,Brereton left to defende Dublin. left Sir William Brereton at Dublin to defende the Citie, and marched with the ar|my to the Naas,Galloglaſſes taken and ſlayne. where he tooke ſeauen ſcore of Thomas his galloglaſſes, and led them all vn|armed toward Ioneſtowne. The ſkoutewatch eſpying Thomas to march neere, imparted it to the gouernour, who incontinently commaun|ded eache man to kyll hys priſoner before the charge, whyche was diſpatcht, only Edmond EEBO page image 99 Oleyn eſcaping mother naked by flight to Tho|mas his companie,Edmõd Oleyn [...]apeth. leauing his ſhyrt in his kee|pers hande. Both the armies aduaunced them|ſelues one agaynſt the other, but the horſemen of eyther ſyde coulde not charge, by reaſon of a mariſh or quakemyre that parted thẽ. Wher|fore the Deputie cauſed two or three field pee|ces to be diſcharged,Thomas and [...]s companie [...]eth which ſkattered Thomas and his rablement, inſomuch as he neuer in ſuch open wiſe durſt after beare vp head in the Eng|liſh pale,Fitz Girald his [...]ratagems. but rather by ſtartes and ſodaine ſtra|tagemes, would now and then gal the Engliſh. As when the Caſtell of Rathimgan was woon, whiche was ſoone after the ſurrender of May|noth, hee cauſed a droue of Cattell to appeare timely in the morning hard by the towne. Such as kept the Fort ſuſpecting it to be a bootie, were trayned for the more part out of the Caſtel, who were ſurpriſed by Thomas, that lay hard by in Ambuſhe, and the greater number of them ſlaine.