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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Richarde Flerings Archbiſhop of Dublin de|ceaſſed on the euen of Saint Luke the Euange|liſt, to whom ſucceeded Richard de Hauerings, who after he had continued in that Sea about a fiue yeeres reſigned it ouer by diſpenſation obtei|ned from Rome, and then his Nephewe Iohn Leech was admitted Archbiſhop there.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeere .1307.1307 the firſt of Aprill Murc [...] Ballagh was beheaded neere to Merton by Sir Dauid Caunton Knight, and ſhortly after was [figure appears here on page 49] Adam Daun ſlaine.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 A diſcomfi|ture in Con|nagh.Alſo, a greate diſcomfiture and ſlaughter fell vpon ye Engliſhmen in Connagh by ye Oſcheles the firſt day of May, and the robbers that dwelfe in ye parties of Offaili, raſed ye Caſtel of Geiſc|hell, and in the vigil of the tranſlatiõ of Thomas Becket, being ye ſixth of Iuly, they brent ye towne of Ley, and beſieged the Caſtell: but they were conſtreyned to depart from thẽce ſhortly after, by Iohn Fitz Thomas & Edmond Butler yt came to remoue that ſiege. In the yere .1308.1308 King Ed|ward ye firſt departed this life the ſeuẽth of Iuly.

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