Compare 1587 edition: 1 Herevpon, the Iriſh, through traffike and bar|tering with theſe Normans or Danes (for ſo are they called alſo) in our Engliſh Chronicle (by exchanging of wares and money) finding them ciuill and tractable, and deliting alſo with gay concents brought into them by thoſe Merchãts (ſuch, as till they ſawe them) they neuer eſteemed needefull, they began to enter into a deſire, that a trade mighte be open betwixt them and the other nations where vpon, to allure other, they licenced theſe Merchãt ſtrangers to build,They builde townes on the Sea coaſts. if they thought good, hauen Townes in places moſt commodi|ons: this was no ſooner graunted, than begunne, and with ſpeede finiſhed.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Amilanus founded Waterforde, Sutaricus,Waterforde, Lymerike, Dublin. Limerick, Iuorus, Dublin: & ſo by others diuers [figure appears here on page 19] other townes were built as leaſure ſerued.
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1 Then by the help and
counſell of theſe men, many Caſtels, Fortes, Steeples, and Churches euery where
were repaired. And thus are the I|riſhe mingled alſo with the bloud of the
Danes, Norwegians or Normans, who from thence|foorth continually flocked into Irelande, to the greate commoditie
of the inhabitants, liuing a|mongſt them obediently, till welth pricked and
moued them to reyſe rebellion, but they could not haue holden out, had not the
conqueſt enſuing de|termined both their quarrels.The
Merchant ſtrãgers moue Rebellion. In the meane while they became
Lordes of the hauens and burrowe townes, planted men of warre in the ſame, and
oftentimes ſkirmiſhed with their aduerſaries, but yet meaſured their fortune
with indifferent gain, and exept no higher than the ſame woulde gyue them
leaue,The fielde of Clontars. onely a memorie is
left of their fielde in Clontars, where diuers of the Iriſhe nobilitie were
ſlayne, that lie buried before the Croſſe of Kylmaynã. Theſe are by our author
not with|out good iudgemẽt reported to be Danes, which people then beeing
Paganes, ſore afflicted Eng|lande, and after that France, from whence they came
again into England with William Con|queror, ſo that thoſe people called
Ostomanni, E|ſterlings, Normãs, Danes, Norwegiãs, &
Sue|deners, are in effect al one nation, borne in yt huge EEBO page image 20 region called Scandinauia,
The ſeuerall names of the ſtrangers, whi|che in theſe dayes afflicted
France, Eng|land, Scotland and Irelande. 1095