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 either lesse discord, or more strength in every mans dominion to cast out the danger of naked Territoryes, as ready to call in the enemy, as the contrary was to shrod them, faine would they mend, and they ist not ho. The former subjection though it seemed intollerable, yet they felt therein a groing to peace, fruits of merchandize, rest & surety; for it fared diversly twixt those Easterlings, & these Irish: they knew how to thrive, might they get some commodious soyle. These had all the commodities of the soyle, & reckoned them not. While the Princes and Potentates pavvsed in this good mood, certain marchants out of Noray, called Ostomanni, Easterlings, because they lay East in respect of us, though they are indeede properly Normans, & partly Saxons, obtained licence safely to land & utter their ares. By exchanging of wares & money, finding the Normans civill and tractable, delighted also ith gay conceipts, hich they never esteemed needfull untill they sa them, they entred into a desire of trafflque ith other nations, to allure marchants, they licenced the strangers aforesaid to build, if they were disposed, Haven Townes, hich as done, Amellanus founded Waterford; Sitaricus, Limericke; Inorus, Dublin, more at leisure by others. Then were repaired by helpe and counsell of these men, castles, forts, steeples, and Churches every-where. Thus are the Irish blended also in the blood of the Normans, who from thenceforth continually flocked hither, did the Inhabitants great pleasure, lived obediently, till wealth made them