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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.
Snippet: 186 of 200 (1577, Volume 3, p. 49)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeere .1306.

1306

A diſcõfiture at Ofalie.

a great ſlaughter was made in Offalie neere to the Caſ [...]ell of Geſchil, the thirteenth day of Aprill vpon Oconchur and his friends by the [...]empeirs, in whiche place were ſlayne a great number of men. Alſo Obren king of Thomond was ſlayne. Moreouer, Donalde Og [...] Maccarthy ſlewe Donald Ruffe King of De [...]emond, and vpon the twelfth of May in the [...] of Meth, a great ouerthrow chanced to ye ſide of the Lord Peers Butler,Balimore brent. and Balymore in Leyniſter was brent by the Iriſh, where Hen|ry Calfe was ſlayne at that preſent time.

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: 187 of 200 (1577, Volume 3, p. 49)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hereof folowed great warres betwixt ye Eng|liſh and Iriſh in Leyniſter,Warres in Leyniſter. ſo that a great army was called togither forth of diuers partes of Ire|land, to reſtrayne the malice of the Iriſh in Ley|niſter, in which iourney, Sir Thomas Mande|uill Knight entred into a conflict with the Iriſh neere to Glenfell, in the whiche he bare hymſelfe right manfully, till his Horſe was ſlayne vnder him, and yet then to his greate prayſe and hyghe [figure appears here on page 49] commendation, he ſaued both himſelfe and many of his company

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: 188 of 200 (1577, Volume 3, p. 49)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Lorde Chancellor conſecrated Biſhop of Imaley.The Lord Chancellor of Irelande, Thomas Caucocke, was conſecrated Biſhop of Imaley, within the Trinitie Churche at Dublin, and kept ſuch a feaſt, as the like had not lightly bene ſeene, nor heard of before that time in Ireland, firſt to the Rich,The Archbi|ſhop of Du|blin deceaſſed and after to the poore.

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