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 THE

SECOND BOOKE

OF

CAMPION'S

HISTORY OF IRELAND.

CAP. I.

The conquest of Jreland by Henry the second, King of England, commonly called Henry Fitz Empresse.

DERMOT MAC MURROUGH, King of Leinster, halt and leacherous, vowed dishonestly to serve his lust on the beautifull Queene of Meath, and in the absence of her husband, allured the woman so farre, that she condiscended to be stolne away. This dishonourable wrong to avenge, O-Rorick the King her husband, besought assistance of Rodericke Oconor, King of Connaght, at that season the generall Monarch of all Ireland. The subjects of Leinster detesting the quarrell, and long ere this time hating their Prince, left him desolate