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You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 114 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 14)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Gurmounde therefore fynding but ſorie ſuc|ceſſe, buylt a fewe ſleight Caſtelles and Fortes in the frontiers, and ſo lefte the lande, and ſayled from thence into Fraunce, where at length hee was ſlaine. Our Chronicles in deede name him King of Irelande,Turgeſius. but the Iriſhe affyrme that before Turgeſius there was none of the Eaſterne people that obteyned dominion in theyr Coun|trey.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 115 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 14)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Geraldus Ca [...]is, to make the mat|ter whole, (a Gods name) thinketh Turgeſius to haue conquered the lande as Lieutenaunt or Deputie vnder Gurmundus. But thys being graunted, there ryſeth a more manifeſt contra|diction than the former,

Laogerius.

430

for hee hymſelfe num|breth betwixte Laogirius King of Irelande, that lyued in the yeare .430. and Edlumding, whom Turgeſius vanquiſhed, xxxiij. Monarkes, whoſe raignes comprehended foure hundred yeares, ſo that Turgeſius lyued in the yeare after the in|carnation .830.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 116 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 14)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Then it is too playne, that hee coulde not haue any doyngs wyth Gurmundus, who ioy|ned with the Saxons agaynſt Careticus,The doubt re|ſolued. in the yeare .586.

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