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OF IRELAND. 137 nor able without many teares to behold his pallaces, and chambers of Estate, which represented unto him the solace past, and doubled his sorrow, sought some occasion of businesse and visited Ireland, where di- verse Lords and Princes of Vlster renewed their homage, and he placing Roger Mortimer his Lieute- nant, returned quietly, but within foure yeares after, informed of the trayterous death of Mortimer, whom he loved entirely, and being wonderfull eager in hastening the revenge thereof upon the Irish, he journeyed thither the second time, y levied infinite sub- sidies of money, by penall exactions, and with his absence as also with those injuries, fed the hatred and opportunity of the conspiratours at home, for Henry Duke of Lancaster, intercepted the Kingdome, whose sonne with the Duke of Glocesters sonne, King Richard shut up in the Castle of Trim, and then shipped course into England, tooke land at Milford Haven, found his defence so weake and un- sure, that to avoide further inconvenience and perill of himselfe and his friends, he condiscended to resigne the Crowne. ' 1399- T