Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 In the yeare 1290, was the chase or discomfiture 1290 of Offalie, & diuerse Englishmen slaine. Also Mac Coghlan slue Omolaghelin king of Meth, and William Burgh was discomfited at Deluin by Mac Coghlan. The same yeare 1290, William Ues|cie William Ues|cie lord iustice. was made lord iustice of Ireland, and entered in|to that office on S. Martins daie. Unto this iustice, Edward Balioll king of Scotland did homage for an earledome which he held in Ireland, in like ma|ner as he did to king Edward for the crowne of Scotland. In the yeare 1292, a fifteenth was gran|ted to the king, of all the temporall goods in Ireland, 1292 whilest Uescie was as yet lord iustice. This Uescie was a sterne man and full of courage, he called Iohn earle of Kildare before him, charging him with foule riots and misdemeanors, for that he ranged abroad, and sought reuenge vpon priuat displeasures out of all order, and not for anie aduancement of the pub|like wealth or seruice of his souereigne.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The earle as impatient to heare himselfe touched The earle of [...]ldare. as the iustice to suffer euill dooing, answered thus.
By your honor and mine (my lord) and by king Ed|wards hand (for that was accompted no small oth in those daies among the Irish) you would if you durst appeach me in plaine termes of treason or felonie: for where I haue the title, and you the fléece of Kil|dare, I wote well how great an eiesore I am in your sight, so that if I might be handsomlie trussed vp for a fellon, then might my master your sonne be|come a gentleman.A gentleman quoth the iustice, thou proud earle? I tell thée, the Uescies were gentle|men before Kildare was an earledome: and before that Welsh bankrupt thy cousine fethered his nest in Leinster. But seeing thou darest me, I will suer|lie breake thy heart. And therwith he called the earle a notorious théefe and a murtherer. Then followed facing and bracing among the souldiers, with high words, and terrible swearing on both sides, vntill ei|ther part appeased his owne.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The lord iustice shortlie after, leauing his deputie William Haie, tooke the sea, and hasted ouer to the king. The earle immediatlie followed, and as hei|nouslie as the lord iustice accused him of felonie, Kildare no lesse appealed him of treason. For triall heereof, the earle asked the combat, and Uescie refu|sed not: but yet when the lists were prouided, Uescie was slipt awaie into France, and so disherited of all his lands in the countie of Kildare, which were be|stowed vpon the earle and his heires for euer. The earle waring loftie of mind in such prosperous suc|cesse, squared with diuerse nobles, English and Irish of that land. The same yeare died Iohn Samford archbishop of Dublin, and Iohn Fitzthomas earle 1294 The death of the archbishop Samford. The earle of Ulster taken prisoner. of Kildare, and Iohn de la Mare tooke prisoners, Ri|chard Burgh earle of Ulster, and William Burgh within the countrie of Meth, and the castell of Kil|dare was taken, and all the countrie wasted by the English on the one side, and the Irish on the other, and Calwagh burnt all the rolles and talies concer|ning the records & accompts of that countie. Great Great dearth and death. dearth and death reigned in Ireland this yeare, and the two yéeres next insuing. The earle of Kildare de|teined the earle of Ulster prisoner, vntill by authori|tie of a parlement holden at Kilkennie, he was deli|uered out of the castell of Leie, for his two sonnes, and for the inuasion which the earle of Kildare had made into Meth, and other his vnrulie and misordred parts, was disseized of the castell of Sligagh, and of all his lands in Connagh.