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You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 115 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 14)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Geraldus Ca [...]is, to make the mat|ter whole, (a Gods name) thinketh Turgeſius to haue conquered the lande as Lieutenaunt or Deputie vnder Gurmundus. But thys being graunted, there ryſeth a more manifeſt contra|diction than the former,

Laogerius.

430

for hee hymſelfe num|breth betwixte Laogirius King of Irelande, that lyued in the yeare .430. and Edlumding, whom Turgeſius vanquiſhed, xxxiij. Monarkes, whoſe raignes comprehended foure hundred yeares, ſo that Turgeſius lyued in the yeare after the in|carnation .830.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 116 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 14)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Then it is too playne, that hee coulde not haue any doyngs wyth Gurmundus, who ioy|ned with the Saxons agaynſt Careticus,The doubt re|ſolued. in the yeare .586.

You are here: 1577 > Volume 3 > Body Text: Section 2 of 4: THE HISTORIE of Irelande.
Snippet: 117 of 155 (1577, Volume 3, p. 14)

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This knotte (ſaith our Authour) might be vn|twyned with more facilitie thus. Gurmun|dus made much of that little he gotte, and wrote himſelfe King, which tytle our Hyſtories doe al|lowe him, bycauſe hee made the waye playne, enioyed it a whyle, and ſet open the gate vnto his Countreymen.

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