Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 With this despitefull murther both sides brake Margaret countesse of Ossorie. out into open enimitie, and especiallie the countesse of Ossorie, Kildare his sister, a rare woman, and a|ble for wisedome to rule a realme, had not hir sto|mach ouerruled hir knowledge. Here began infor|mations of new treasons, passing to and fro, with complaints and replies. But the marques Dorset had wrought so for his sonne in law, that he was suf|fered to rest at home, and onelie commissioners di|rected into Ireland, with authoritie to examine the root of their griefes: wherein if they found Kildare anie thing at all purged, their instructions were to depose the plaintiffe, and to sweare the other lord de|putie. Commissioners were these, sir Rafe Eger|ton, Commissio|ners sentis Ireland. a knight of Cheshire, Anthonie Fitzherbert, second iustice of the common plées, and Iames Denton, deane of Litchfield; who hauing exami|ned these accusations, suddenlie tooke the sword from the earle of Ossorie, sware Kildare lord deputie be|fore Kildare sworne lord deputie. whome Con Oneale bare the sword that [...].

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 EEBO page image 85 Concerning the murtherer whom they might haue hanged, they brought him prisoner into England, presented him to the cardinall Wools [...]ie, who was said to hate Kildare his bloud: and the cardinall in|tending Cardinall wools [...]ie eni|m [...] to the Giraldines. to haue put him to execution, with more re|proch and dishonor to the name, caused him to be led about the streets of London haltered, and hauing a taper in his hand: which asked so long time, that the deane of Lichfield stepped to the king, and begged his pardon. The cardinall was sore inflamed here|with, & the malice not hitherto so ranke, was through|lie Pardon gran|ted. ripened, & therfore henseforward Ossorie brought foorth diuerse proofes of the deputie his disorder, for Kildare accu|sed. The articles. that (as he alledged) the deputie should winke at the earle of Desmond, whome by vertue of the king his letters he ought to haue attached. Also, that he fought for acquaintance and affinitie with meere I|rish enimies, that he had armed them against him, then being the king his deputie; he hanged and headed good subiects, whome he mistrusted to leane to the Butlers friendship. Kildare was therfore pre|sentlie commanded to appeare, which he did, leauing in his roome his brother Fitzgirald of Lexlip, whom Fitzgirald lord iustice. they shortlie deposed, and chose the baron of Del|uin, whome Oconor tooke prisoner, & then the earle of The earle of Ossorie cho|sen lord depu|tie. Ossorie (to shew his abilitie of seruice) brought to Dublin an armie of Irishmen, hauing capteins o|uer them Oconor, Omore, & Ocarroll, & at S. Ma|rie abbeie was chosen deputie by the kings councell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In which office, being himselfe (saue onelie in feats of armes) a simple gentleman, he bare out his honor, and the charge of gouernement verie worthi|lie, through the singular wisedome of his countesse, The Coun|tesse of Os|sorie. a ladie of such a port, that all estates of the realme crouched vnto hir; so politike, that nothing was thought substantiallie debated without hir aduise: manlike and tall of stature, verie liberall and boun|tifull; a sure friend, a bitter enimie, hardlie disliking where she fansied, not easilie fansieng where she dis|liked: the onelie meane at those daies whereby hir husband his countrie was reclamed from [...]uttish|nesse and slouenrie, to cleane bedding and ciuilitie. But to these vertues was linked such a selfe liking, such an ouerwéening, and such a maiestie aboue the tenure of a subiect, that for assurance thereof, she sticked not to abuse hir husbands honor against hir brothers follie. Notwithstanding, I learne not that shée practised his vndooing (which insued, and was to hir vndoubtedlie great heauinesse, as vpon whome both the blemish thereof, and the substance of the greater part of that familie depended after) but that she by indirect meanes lifted hir brother out of credit to aduance hir husband, the common voice, and the thing it selfe speaketh. All this while abode the earle of Kildare at the court, and with much adoo found shift to be called before the lords to answer sudden|lie. They sat vpon him diuerstie affected, and name|lie the cardinall lord chancellor misliking the earle Kildare con|uented before the councell. his cause, comforted his accusers, and inforced the articles obiected, in these words.