[1] [2] ¶ In this yeare in a manner throughout all the realme of England, old baie trées withered, Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Wa [...]. pag. 395. and af|terwards, contrarie to all mens thinking, grew greene againe, a strange sight, and supposed to import some vnknowne euent. Polydor. ¶ In this meane time the king being aduertised that the wild Irish dailie wa|sted and destroied the townes and villages within the English pale, and had slaine manie of the souldi|ers which laie there in garison for defense of that [page 497] countrie, determined to make eftsoones a voiage thi|ther, & prepared all things necessarie for his passage now against the spring. A little before his setting foorth, he caused a iusts to be holden at Windesor of fourtie knights and fourtie esquiers,A iusts at Windesor. against all com|mers, & they to be apparelled in gréene, with a white falcon, and the queene to be there well accompani|ed with ladies and damsels.

The king sai|leth ouer into Ireland with a great armie.

Fabian. Caxton.

The duke of Yorke lieute|nant generall of England, the king be|ing in Ireland.

H [...]n. Marl.

When these iusts were finished, the king departed toward Bristow, from thence to passe into Ireland, leauing the queene with hir traine still at Windesor: he appointed for his lieutenant generall in his absence his vncle the duke of Yorke: and so in the moneth of Aprill, as diuerse authors write, he set forward from Windesor, and fi|nallie tooke shipping at Milford, and from thence with two hundred ships, and a puissant power of men of armes and archers he sailed into Ireland. The fridaie next after his arriuall, there were slaine two hundred Irishmen at Fourd in Kenlis within the countie of Kildare, by that valiant gentleman Ienico Dartois, and such Englishmen as he had there with him: and on the morrow next insuing the citizens of Dublin inuaded the countrie of Obrin, and slue thirtie and thrée Irishmen.