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1285, the lord Theobald Butler fled from Dubline, and died shortlie after, and the lord 1 [...]85 Theobald Uerdon lost his men and horsses as he went towards Offalie, & the next
day Gerald Fitz|maurice was taken, and Iohn Samford was conse|crated Iohn Sam|ford
consecra|ted archbishop of Dublin. In ouerthrow at Rathod Norwagh and Ardscol burnt 1286
archbishop of Dublin. Moreouer at Rathod, the lord Geffreie Genuill fled, and sir Gerard Do|get, and Rafe
Petit were slaine, with a great num|ber of others. The Norwagh and
Ardscoll with other townes and villages were burnt by Philip Stanton the sixteenth daie of Nouember, in the
yeare 1286. Also Calwagh was taken at Kildare. In the yeare 1287, diuerse nobles in Ireland deceased, as
Ri|chard Deceter, Gerald Fitzmaurice, Thomas de Clare, Richard Taffie, & Nicholas Teling knights.
The yeare next insuing, deceased frier Fulborne 1288 Samford archbishop o [...] Dublin lord [...]ustice. lord iustice of Ireland, and Iohn Samford archbi|shop of Dublin was aduanced to the
roome of lord iustice. Also Richard Burgh earle of Ulster besieged
Theobald Uerdon in the castell of Athlon, and came with a great power vnto Trim, by the working of Walter
Lacie.
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slaine. Also Mac Coghlan slue Omolaghelin king of Meth, and William Burgh was discomfited at Deluin by Mac
Coghlan. The same yeare 1290, William Ues|cie William Ues|cie lord iustice. was
made lord iustice of Ireland, and entered in|to that office on S. Martins
daie. Unto this iustice, Edward Balioll king of Scotland did homage for an earledome which he held in
Ireland, in like ma|ner as he did to king Edward for the crowne of Scotland. In the yeare 1292, a fifteenth
was gran|ted to the king, of all the temporall goods in Ireland, 1292 whilest
Uescie was as yet lord iustice. This Uescie was a sterne man and full of courage, he called Iohn earle of
Kildare before him, charging him with foule riots and misdemeanors, for that he ranged abroad, and sought
reuenge vpon priuat displeasures out of all order, and not for anie aduancement of the pub|like wealth or
seruice of his souereigne.
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impatient to heare himselfe touched The earle of [...]ldare. as the iustice to suffer euill dooing, answered thus.
By your honor and mine (my
lord) and by king Ed|wards hand (for that was accompted no small oth in those daies among the Irish) you
would if you durst appeach me in plaine termes of treason or felonie: for where I haue the title, and you
the fléece of Kil|dare, I wote well how great an eiesore I am in your sight, so that if I might be
handsomlie trussed vp for a fellon, then might my master your sonne be|come a gentleman.
A gentleman
quoth the iustice, thou proud earle? I tell thée, the Uescies were gentle|men before Kildare was an
earledome: and before that Welsh bankrupt thy cousine fethered his nest in Leinster. But seeing thou darest
me, I will suer|lie breake thy heart. And therwith he called the earle a notorious théefe and a murtherer.
Then followed facing and bracing among the souldiers, with high words, and terrible swearing on both sides,
vntill ei|ther part appeased his owne.