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OF IRELAND. 8? soner, who being calmely intreated, began to overview himselfe, and to imagine that the Citizens durst not use him extreamely, & once in open audience brake forth his unseasonable courage, in these wordes. Take this (quoth he) but for hansell, the game is to come : which heard they delayed him no longer, but pusht him downe on a blocke, and swapped off his head. Strongboiv perceiving the Kings jealously not yet allayed, having wel-nigh spent his army in defence of diverse good townes, impugned by Rodericke and the Irish, left sufficient warde till his returne : and met the King at Gloucester. v To whom he writeth, declaring the envy that lurked in his preferment, yeelded the tittle of all his winning, craved good countenance with his grace, contented himselfe with any portion whatsoever his Majesty should relinquish : a finall quietnesse was driven betweene them, Dublin with th' appurtenances, and all port townes of Leinster, & all fortresses reserved to the King. The Earle should enjoy with good leave whatsoever he had gotten beside. This yeare dyed Mac Murrow, and the Abbey de Castro Dei was founded. Soone after the King with five hundred Knights with archers and horsemen many more tooke shore at Waterford, w and was such a ten our to the Irish, that v 1171. w 1172. Regni sui 17- Mtafis 41.