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OF IRELAND* . 18^ In the meane while Sussex became Lord President of the North of England, a spare man of body, but sound & healthfull, brought up with Stephen Gardiner, passing valiant, a deep readier, very zealous in friend- ship, quicke in resolution of extremities in the field, wonderfull patient, able to tyre ten souldiours, learned and languaged, ever doing with his penne, of utterance sharpe and sententious, wary, busie, painefull, and speedie, meeter to rule, then to be over-ruled. Sir Henri/ Sidney, Knight of the Garter, Lord Pre- sident of Wales, and Lord Deputie of Ireland. Hee found theRealme distempered with Oneales rebellion, and the same did extinguish, whereof before I speake, I must looke backe a little into certaine yeares past, and lay together the circumstance of this lamentable tumult. Of all the Irish Princes, though none was then com- parable to Oneale for antiquity and noblenesse of bloud, yet had the same endured sundry varieties and vexa- tions, untill the division began in England of the two royall families, Yorke and Lancaster, at which time the English Lords of Ireland, either for zeale, or for kinred and affection transporting their force thither to vphold a side, the meere Irish waxed insolent, and chiefly Oneale incroched upon the full possession of Vlster, abiding so uncontrolled, till Shane Oneale fearing the puissance of Henry 8. exhibited to him a voluntary submission, surrendred all titles of honour,