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 100 campion's historie times came Lacy to quicken his labourers, full glad to see them fall in ure with any such exercise, wherein, might they once be grounded & taste the svveetenesse of a true mans life, he thought it no small token of reformation to be hoped, for which cause he visited them often, and merrily would command his Gentlemen to give the labourers example in taking paines, to take their instruments in hand, and to worke a season, the poore soules looking on and resting. But this game ended Tragically, while each man was busie to try his cunning: some lading, some plaistering, some heaving, some carving ; the Generall also himselfe, digging with a pykeaxe, a desperate villaine of them, he whose toole the Generall used, espying both his hands occupied and his body, with all force inclining to the blow, watched his stoope, and clove his head with an axe, little es- teeming the torments that ensued. k This Lacy was conquerour of Meth, his body the two Archbishops, Iohn of Divelin and Mathew of Cashell, buryed in the monastery of Becktye, his head in S. Thomas abbey at Divelin. l The next yeare, was builded the abbey of Ines in Vlster, m and soone after, the abbeyes of Iugo Dei, and of Comer, n and then the abbey of Knock - moy, or de Colle victorise, by ° Gatliel Cronderg King of Connaght. k 1189. 1 1187. U '119S- 1199. • 1200.