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You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 4 of 4: The thirde Booke of the Hiſtorie of Ireland, compriſing the raigne of Henry the eyght: continued by Richard Stanihurſt, and vvritten to the right honorable Sir Henrie Sidney Knight, Lord Deputie of Ireland, Lord preſident of VVales, Knight of the moſt noble order of the Garter, and one of hir Maieſties priue Counſayle within hir Realme of Englande.
Snippet: 278 of 344 (1577, Volume 3, p. 109)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe and the lyke Artycles, were wyth ſuch odious preſumptions coloured by his ac|cuſers, as the King and Counſayle remem|bring his late faultes, and forgetting hys for|mer ſeruices (for commonly all men are of ſo harde happe, that they ſhall bee ſooner for one treſpaſſe condemned, than for a thouſande good deſertes commended) gaue commaundement that the Lorde Gray ſhoulde not onely bee re|mooued from the gouernment of the Countrey,

The Lord Gray beheaded.

1541

but alſo had him beheaded on the Tower hit the xxviij. of Iune.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 4 of 4: The thirde Booke of the Hiſtorie of Ireland, compriſing the raigne of Henry the eyght: continued by Richard Stanihurſt, and vvritten to the right honorable Sir Henrie Sidney Knight, Lord Deputie of Ireland, Lord preſident of VVales, Knight of the moſt noble order of the Garter, and one of hir Maieſties priue Counſayle within hir Realme of Englande.
Snippet: 280 of 344 (1577, Volume 3, p. 109)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Lorde Gray guiltleſſe of the firſt Article.But as touching the firſt Article, that brought him moſt of all out of conceyte wyth the King, I mooued queſtion to the Earle of Kyldare, whether the tenour thereof were true or falſe? His Lordſhip thereto anſwered bona fide, that hee neuer ſpake with the Lorde Gray, neuer ſent meſſenger to him, nor receyued meſ|ſage or letter from him.

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