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Compare 1587 edition: 1 This loſſe the rulers of the Iriſh nation pur|poſed in all haſt to reuenge vpõ them of the Iles. But Achaius bearing thereof, ſent ouer an Am|baſſade vnto thẽ to haue the matter taken vp be|fore any further force wer vſed: aledging how ther was no cauſe wherfore wars ſhould be moued for ſuch a matter, where the occaſion had bene giuen but by a ſort of Rouers on eyther ſyde, without commaundement or warrant obteyned from any of their ſuperiours.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Iriſh men will reuenge.Howbeit the Nobles of Irelande (for there was no king amongeſt them at that tyme as it chaunced) moued altogither with indignation for the ſlaughter of theyr Countrymen, made a direct anſwere, that they woulde ſurely be reuen|ged of the reproche which they had receyued, be|fore they woulde commune of any peace. And therefore whyleſt the Scottiſh Ambaſſadors re|turned out of Ireland with this anſwere, a great number of them in ſhippes and crayers paſſed o|uer into Ila,Iriſhmen take a pray in Ila. where getting togither a great pray, and fraughting theyr veſſelles therewith, as they were returning homewardes, they were ſuncke by force of tempeſt, ſo that neyther ſhip nor man returned to bring tydings home howe they had ſped in Scotlande.

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