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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: 297 of 344 (1577, Volume 3, p. 110)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the ſiege of Bollongne they ſtoode the armye in verye good ſteade. For they were not onely contented to burne and ſpoyle all the villages thereto adioyning, but alſo they would raunge twentie or thirtie miles into the maine EEBO page image 111 lande, [...]heir policie in [...]eying for armie. and hauing taken a Bull, they vſed to tie him to a ſtake, and ſcorching hym with fa|gottes, they woulde force him to roare, ſo as all the Cattell in the Countrey woulde make to|wardes the Bull, all which they woulde light|ly leade away, and furniſh the campe with ſtore of b [...]efe.

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: 298 of 344 (1577, Volume 3, p. 111)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 If they tooke anye Frenche man pryſoner, leaſt they ſhoulde bee accounted couetous in ſnatching wyth them hys intyre bodye, hys onelye raunſome ſhoulde bee no more but hys heade.

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: 299 of 344 (1577, Volume 3, p. 111)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The French wyth this extraordinarie kind of warfarring aſtonyed, ſent an Ambaſſadour to King Henrie, to learne whether he brought meane wyth hym or Diuelles, that coulde neyther bee woonne wyth rewardes, nor paci|fyed by pitie: whiche when the King had tur|ned to a [...]eaſt, the French menne euer after, if they coulde take anye of the Iriſhe ſcatte|ring from the companie, vſed fyrſt to cutte off theyr genitours, and after to tormente them with as greate and as lingring paine as they could deuiſe.

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