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 OF IRELAND. 121 bush thereby, being of old time well acquainted with the valiantnes & truth of Hussee, sore longed to traine him from his Captaine, and presuming now upon this opportunity, disclosed himself & said. « Hussee, thou ' seest I am at all points armed, and have my Esquire, c page a youngling so that if I loved not thee for ' thine owne sake, I might betray thee for thy Mas- ' promise thee by S. Patrickes staffe, to make thee a ' Lord in Connaght, of more ground, then thy Master 6 hath in Ireland/ When these wordes wai^hed him nothing, his owne man (a stout lubber) began to re- prove him, for not relenting to so rich a proffer, assured him with an oath, whereupon hee proffered to gage his soule for performance. Now had Hussee three enemies, and first he turned to his owne knave, and him he slew, next hee raught to Okellyes Squire a great rappe under the pit of his eare, which over- threw him: Thirdly he bestirred himselfe so nimbly that ere any helpe could be hoped for, he had also slaine Okelly, and perceiving breath in the Squire, he drawed him up againe, & forced him, upon a truncheon to beare his Lords head into the high towne, which presented to Bermingham, and the circumstances declared, he dubbed Hussee Knight and him advanced to many preferments, whose family became afterwards Barons of Galtrime. While the Scots were thus matched, Robert de Bruise King of Scots, tooke shore at Cragfergus, to assist his brother, whose Soul- R
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