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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thomas ſay|leth into Eng|land.Herevpon Thomas Fitz Giralde ſore a|gaynſt the willes of his Counſaylours diſmiſt his armie, and roade with the Deputie to Dub|lyn,1535 where he made ſhort abode when hee ſayled to Englande with the fauourable letters of the gouernour and the Counſayle. And as hee woulde haue taken his iourney to Windſore where the Court lay,He is commit+ted to the Tower. he was intercepted contra|rie to his expectation in London way, and con|ueyed with haſt to the Tower. And before his impriſonment were bruted, letters were poſted into Irelande, ſtraytly commaunding the De|putie vpon ſight of them, to apprehend Thomas Fitz Girald his vncles, and to ſee them with all ſpeede conuenient ſhipt into England. Which the Lorde Deputie did not ſlacke. For hauing feaſted three of the Gentlemen at Kylmaynan,Thomas his vncles taken. immediately after their banquet (as it is nowe and then ſeene, that ſweete meate will haue ſowre ſauce) he cauſed them to be manacled, and led as priſoners to the Caſtell of Dublin: and the other two were ſo roundly ſnatcht vp in vil|lages hard by, as they ſooner felt theyr owne captiuitie, than they had notice of theyr bre|threns calamitie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The next winde that ſerued into Englande theſe fiue brethren were embarked, to wit Ia|mes Fitz Giralde, Walter Fitz Girald, Oliuer Fitz Girald, Iohn Fitz Girald, & Richard Fitz Girald. Three of theſe Gentlemen, Iames, Walter, and Richarde, were knowne to haue croſſed their Nephew Thomas to their power in his Rebellion, and therefore were not occa|ſioned to miſdoubt any daunger. But ſuch as in thoſe dayes were enimies to the houſe, incen|ſed the king ſo ſore agaynſt it, perſwading him, that he ſhould neuer conquer Irelande, as long as any Giraldine breathed in the Countrey, and for making the pathway ſmooth, he was reſol|ued to loppe off as well the good and ſounde Grapes, as the wilde and fruiteleſſe Beries. Whereby appeareth howe daungerous it is to be a rubbe, when a King is diſpoſed to ſweepe an Alley.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus were the fiue brethren ſayling into Englande, among whome Richarde Fitz Gi|ralde being more bookiſh than the reſt of his bre|thren, and one that was much giuen to the ſtu|dies of antiquitie, veyling his inwarde griefe, with outward myrth comforted them wyth cheerefulneſſe of countenance, as well perſwa|ding them that offended to repoſe affiaunce in God, and the King his mercie, and ſuch as were not of that conſpiracie,Innocencie a ſtrong fort. to relie to theyr inno|cencie, which they ſhould hold for a more ſafe & ſtrong Barbican, than any rampire or Caſtell of Braſſe.

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