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 OF IRELAND. 99 This report lightly alienated the mindes of those Princes, not yet very resolute, and turned them home with great oathes and leagues, entred among them- selves, caused also the mightiest Captaines elsewhere to sticke together, while their lives lasted, and for no manner earthly thing to slacke the defence of their auncient liberties. Immediately walked abroad mutinyes of hroyle & commotion, so that the young Earle and his army, were content to commit the tryall thereof, to Lacy, Bruise, Courcy, Fitz Gerald, and the rest, himselfe departing away the same yeare he came, and leaving the Realme a great deale worse bestedde then he found it. From the Conquest hitherto Giraldus Cambrensis, and from hence to the yeare 1370. I am specially holpen by certaine briefe extracts, 1 whose author is namelesse, and therefore I quote him by the name of Philip Flatsbury who wrote them, and enriched them with collections of his owne, for Gerald the father of the Earle of Kildare then being. An. 1517- Lacy the rather for these whisperings, did erect and edifie a number of Castles, well and substantially, pro- vided in convenient places, one at Derwath, where di- verse Irish prayed to be set on worke, for hyre. Sundry ' In these notes I used the conference of 3. coppies, much differ«nt, sent me, the one by my Lord of Tiimlestone, another from M, Agard, the third from M. Stanvhurst.