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You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 3 of 4: The ſeconde Booke of the Hiſtories of Irelande, in which the conqueſt made by Henry the ſecond of that name, King of Englande, is comprehended.
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1303

The Erle of Vlſter.

In the yeere .1303. the Earle of Vlſter, and Ri|chard Burgh, and ſir Euſtace le Power, with a puiſſant Army entred Scotlãd. The Earle made xxxiij. knightes at Dublin, before he ſet forward. The ſame yeere Geralde, ſonne and heire to the Lord Iohn Fitz Thomas, departed this life, and likewiſe the counteſſe of Vlſter. William de Welliſley, and Sir Roberte de Perciuall were ſlayne the .xxij. of October.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 3 of 4: The ſeconde Booke of the Hiſtories of Irelande, in which the conqueſt made by Henry the ſecond of that name, King of Englande, is comprehended.
Snippet: 184 of 200 (1577, Volume 3, p. 48)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeere .1304.1304 a great parte of the Citie of Dublin was brent by caſuall fire.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 3 of 4: The ſeconde Booke of the Hiſtories of Irelande, in which the conqueſt made by Henry the ſecond of that name, King of Englande, is comprehended.
Snippet: 185 of 200 (1577, Volume 3, p. 48)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeere next enſuing, Iordayne Comin with his complices, ſlew Maritagh Oconghuir King of Offalie, and his brother Calwagh, with diuers other within the Courte of Peeres de Birmingham at Carrick in Carbrie. Alſo, Sir Gilberte Sutton, Stewarde of Wexfforde, was ſlayne by the Iriſhmen, neere to the Ferme of EEBO page image 49 Haymond de Grace, which Haymond bare him|ſelfe right valiantly in that fight, and in the ende through his great manhoode eſcaped.

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