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 OF IRELAND. 129 quished. In which sturre, William Bermingham, a warriour incomparable, was found halting, and was condemned to dye by Roger Outlawe, Pryor of Kil- mainam, then Lieutenant to the Lord Iustice, and so hanged was hee, a Knight among thousands odde and singular. So outragious were the Leinster Irish that in one Church they burned 80. innocent soules, asking no more but the life of their Priest then at Masse, whom they notwithstanding sticked with their Iavelins, spurned the blessed Sacrament, and wasted all with fire, neither forced they the Popes interdiction, nor any censures ecclesiasticall denounced against them: But maliciously persevered in that fury, till the Citizens of Weixford tamed them, slew foure hundred in one skirmish, the rest flying, were all drenched in the water of Slane. Thomas Burgh e Treasurer and Lieutenant of Ire- land, while Darcy Lord Iustice pursued the murtherers of William Bourk Earle of Vlster, a young gentleman of twenty yeares olde, whom the seditions of Maun- devill murdered besides Cragfergus. And when hee had scourged those Tray tours, he entred Scotland with an army and might have possessed the Hands besides, had they bene worth the keeping, into which Hands besides him and Sussex the late Lieutenant of Ireland no Governour ever yet adventured. Sir Iolin Carleton Lord Iustice, f with whom came « 1335. ( 1337.