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You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 150 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 19)

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.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 151 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 19)

Compare 1587 edition: 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.

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and as it appeareth by conference of tunes and Chronicles, much|what about one ſeaſon, vexed the Frenchmen, af|flicted Scotland, ſubdued Englande, and multi|plyed in Irelande. But in the yeere of Chriſt 1095. perceyuing greate enuie to remayne and lurke in the diſtinction of the names Eaſterlings and Iriſhe, that were altogither Weſterne, and the Eaſterlings not Eaſterne indeede, but rather ſimplye Northren: in conſideration whereof, and bycauſe they magnifyed themſelues in the late conqueſt of theyr countreymen, who from Normandie comming ouer into Englande ru|led there at their pleaſure,The Eaſter|lings will be called Nor|mans. theſe ſtrangers in Ire|land would algate nowe bee alſo called and ac|compted Normans.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Long before this tyme (as ye haue heard) Ire|lande was beſtowed into two principall king|domes, and ſometime into more, whereof one was euer elected and reputed to be chiefe, and as it were a Monarke, whome in their Hiſtories they name Maximum Regem, that is, the greateſt King,Maximus Rex The great king or Mo|narke of Ire|lande. or elſe without addition, Regem Hiberniae, the King of Ireland, the other they name Reguli or Reges, that is to witte, ſmall Kings, or elſe kings, by limitting the places wherof they were, to be reputed Kings, as of Leyniſter, Connagh, Vlſter, Monſter, or Meth.

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