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 OF IRELAND. 1^9 All this while the Kings army was looked for, and no succour came to the rehels, which greatly quayled them, being of themselves, though stored with soul- diours, yet unfurnished with any sufficient munition to stand in a maine battell. Moreover the number of wise Gentlemen did not greatly incline to his purpose. And therefore when he besieged the City of Divelin, the most part of those arrowes which were shot over the walles, were unheaded, and little or nothing af- frayed them. That espied the citizens, and gathering the faintnes of his souldiours thereby,' blazed abroad upon the walles triumphant newes, that the King's Army was arryved, and as it had beene so indeed, sud- denly rushed out of their gates upon the Rebels, who at the first sight of armed men, weening no lesse but the truth was so, otherwise assured that the Citty would never dare to encounter them, gave ground, forsooke their Captaines, dispersed and scattered into diverse corners, and never after met together. A little before this time dyed the Earle of Kildare in the towre of London for thought and paine. z Sir William Skevington (whom the Irish men call the gunner, because hee was preferred from that office of the Kings Master-gunner to governe them, and that they can full evill brooke to be ruled of any that is but meanely borne) brought over an Army, and with him Leonard Gray, a younger sonne to the Marquesse % John Stow.