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OF IRELAND. 10^ the fame be true, with his owne hands at Roane. Of* this barbarous cruelty all mens eares were full, and Courcye either of zeale or partiality, spake bloudy words against it, which meane his undermyners caught, and did not onely heave him out of credit, but also got commission to attach his body, and to send him into England. The Earle mistrusted his part, and kept aloofe, till Hugh de Lacye Lord Iustice, was faine to levye men in armes, and to invade Vlster. r Thence hee was often put to flight, whereupon hee proclaymed Courcye Traytour, and hyred sundry gentlemen with rewards, to bring him in quicke or dead, so long hee wooed the matter, that Courcyes owne Captaines were inveygled to betray their Lord. Therefore upon good Friday, when the Earle did off his armour, and in secret meditations visited religious places bare -footed, they layde for him, tooke him as a rebell, and shipped him into England the next way, where he was adjudged to perpetuall prison. s Sentleger addeth in his collec- tions that Lacy payd the Traytors their money, and then immediatly hanged them. This Courcye translated the Church and Preben- dary es of the Trinity in Downe, to an Abbey of black Monks brought thither from Chester, and the r 1202. • 1204.