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Compare 1587 edition: 1 An other tyme bee fired a Village harde by Trim, and deuiſed ſuch of his horſemen that coulde ſpeake Engliſh, beeing clad and horſed like Northerne men, to ryde to Trim, where a garniſon lay, with hue and crie, ſaying that they were Captaine Saliſburie his ſouldiours, and that the traytour Thomas Fitz Giralde was burning a village harde by. The ſouldiours ſuſ|pecting no coſinage, iſſued out of the towne, who were by his men charged, and a great number of them ſlaine, ſome chaſed to the towne, and forced to take Sanctuarie in the Church yarde, which thoſe dayes was highly reuerenced.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe and the like knackes vſed Thomas, bring for his owne perſon ſo well garded, and for defect of a maine armie ſo naked, as neyther he was occaſioned to feare the Engliſh, nor the Engliſh forced to weigh him.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 During this tyme, there arriued with a freſh ſupplie of horſemen and Archers,William Sentlo, Rice Manſwel Edward Grif|feth. ſir William Sentlo knight, and his ſonne, ſir Rice Manſ|well knight, ſir Edward Griffeth knight, who were diſperſed to ſundrie partes of the Pale, to defende the Countrey from the enimyes in|uaſion.

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