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 OF IRELAND. 81 all possible haste, could not personally intend that offer, but sent him honourably garded into England, with letters patents bearing this Tenour. Henry the second, King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Earle of Angiow. To all our true subjects, English, Normans, Welchmen, Scotts, and to all nations within our Dominions what- soever. Greeting. Witt yee that the Bearer hereof, Dermot Mac Murrough King of Leinster, we have received into the soveraigne protection of our Grace and bounty, wherefore who so of you all our loving subjects will extend towards him, your ayde for his re- storing, as to our trusty and welbeloved, know yee that he is thereto authorized by these presents, and shall deserve at our hands high favour in so doing. With these letters and many gay additions of his owne, he arrived at Bristow, where he fell at confe- rence with Richard Strongboiv, Earle of Pembroke, with whom he covenanted, the delivery of his onely daughter and heire unto marriage, and so the re- mainder of his Kino-dome : If the said Earle would recover him his home. That day were planted in Wales two gentlemen, Robert Fitz Stephens and Maurice Fitz Gerald, brethren of a Mother, allyed to Rice ap Griffin, then Prince of Wales, whose Grand-father was surnamed Rice the great. Fitz Stephens had beene high Constable there under the King, and for executing rigour upon the Princes servants, was with M