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OP IRELAND. 113 Butler, and Miles Cogan. c The king tooke up the va- riance, and discharged Den^ d preferring David Barry e to his roome, who tamed the insolence of Morrice Fitz Morrice, e cousin germane to Fitz Gerald : upon Barrye came Vfford, upon Vfford, lames Audeley, who dyed of a fall from his horse in Thomond: and then for the time Fitz Morrice governed, till the king sent over Sir leffrey de Genevill, newly returned in pilgrimage from the Holy Sepulture : Him called home againe Edivard the first, in the fourth yeare of his raigne, and sent in his stead Robert Vfford the second time, who made his Vice-gerent, Fryar Fulborne, Bishop of Waterford, and resumed his charge at his next arryvall into Ireland. At this time f the citty of Divelin was miserably wasted with fire, and the Bell-house of Christs Church utterly defaced, which the citizens before they repayred their private harmes jointly came to succor, & collec- tions made to redresse the ruines of that ancient building first begun by the Danes, as I finde in a monument of that foundation, continued by Sitricus ; Prince of Dive- lin, at the motion of Donate, then Bishop, & dedicated to the Blessed Trinity, finished by Richard Earle Strangboiu, Fitz Stephens, and S. Laurence the Arch - bishop, and his foure successors, Iohn of Evesham, Henry Scorchbill, Lord Iustice, & Lucas, and lastly by Iohn de S. Paul, which worke at the decay by fire, c 1267. d 1268. • 1270. f 1280.