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Compare 1577 edition: 1 R. Houed. Nunnes of Amesburie.The same yeare also he thrust the nunnes of A|mesburie out of their house, bicause of their inconti|nent liuing, in abusing their bodies greatlie to their reproch, and bestowed them in other monasteries to be kept in more streightlie. And their house was committed vnto the abbesse and couent of Founte|uered, who sent ouer certeine of their number to fur|nish the house of Amesburie, wherein they were pla|ced by the archbishop of Canturburie, in the presence of the king and a great number of others.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Philip earle of Flanders by sending ouer ambas|sadours to king Henrie,Philip earle of Flanders. promised that he would not bestow his two néeces, daughters to his brother Matthew earle of Bullongne, without consent of the same king: but shortlie after he forgot his pro|mise, & married the elder of them to the duke of Za|ringes, & the yoonger to Henrie duke of Louaine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Iohn de Curcie lord cheefe iustice of Ireland dis|comfiting a power of Irishmen, wan the citie of Dun in Ulnestre,Iohn de Curcie. where the bodies of S. Patrike and S. Colme confessors, and S. Brigit the virgin are buried, for the taking of which citie, Roderike king of Ulnestre being sore offended, raised a migh|tie host,Roderike K. of Ulnestre vanquished. and comming into the field, fought with the lord cheefe iustice, and in the end receiued & tooke the ouerthrow at his hands, although the lord cheefe iu|stice at that encounter lost no small number of his men. Amongst prisoners that were taken, the bishop of Dun was one, whom yet the lord cheefe iustice re|leased and set at libertie, in respect of a request and suit made to him by a cardinall the popes legat that was there in Ireland at that time.

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