In the yere .1294. K. Richard sore afflicted and troubled in minde with sorrow, for the decease of his wife Queene Anne that departed this life at Whitsuntide last past, not able without teares to beholde his Palaces and Chambers of estate, that represented vnto him the solace past, and doubled his sorrow, sought some occasion of businesse: and now about Michaelmasse passed ouer into Ire∣lande, where dyuerse Lordes and Princes of Vl∣ster renued theyr homages, and placing Roger [ 10] Mortimer Erle of March his Lieutenant, retur∣ned about Shrouetide.
In the yeare .1397. Richarde de Norshalis Archebishop of Dublyn departed this life, that was the same yeare from an other Sea remoued thither. He was a Frier of the order of the of the Carmelites.
The same yeare Thomas de Crauly was cho∣sen & consecrated Archbishop of Dublyn. Also sir Thomas de Burgh, & sir Walter de Birming∣ham slue .vj. C. Irish men, ••••th their Captaine Macdoun. Moreouer, Edmond Erle of March Lorde Deputie of Irelande, with the ayde of the Erle of Ormond, wasted the countrey of an I∣rish
Lord called Obren, and at the winning of his chiefe house he made .vij. knightes, to wit, sir Christofer Preston, sir Iohn Bedlew, sir Edmōd Loundris, sir Iohn Loundris, sir William Nu∣gent, Walter de la Hide, and Robert Cadel. But after this it chaunced, that on the Ascention day, certaine Irish men slue .xl. English men, and a∣mong them these were accounted as principall, Iohn Fitz William, Thomas Talbot, & Tho∣mas
[ 40] Cambry. But shortly after Roger Morti∣mer Erle of March and Vlster the kings Lieute∣nant was slain with diuerse other, by Obren and other Irishmen of Leynister at Kenlis. Then was Roger Gray elected Lorde Iustice of Ire∣land. The same yere on the feast day of S. Marke the Pope, the duke of Surrey landed in Ireland, & with him came sir Thomas Crauly the Arch∣bishop of Dublin. King Richard informed of the vnruly parts and rebellious sturres of the Irish∣men,
[ 50] minded to appease the same, and specially to reuenge the death of the Erle of March: wherevp∣pon with a name of two hundred sayles he pas∣sed ouer into Irelande, and landed at Waterford on a Sunday being the morrow after S. Petro∣nilla the virgins day.
The Fryday after his arriuall at Forde in Kenlis, within the Countie of Kildare, there were slaine two. E. Irishmen, by Ienicho de Artois a Eascoigne, and such Englishmen as he had with him: and the morrow after, the Citizens of Du•…•…∣ling brake into the countrey of Obren, slue .xxxiij of the enimies, & tooke .lxxx. men with children.
The .iiij. Kalends of Iuly, king Richard came to Dublin and remayned there for a time, during the which diuerse Lordes and Princes of the coū∣trey came in and submitted themselues vnto him, by whom they were curteously vsed, and trayned to honourable demeanor and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, as much as the shortnesse of time would permit, as in ye Eng∣lish historie you may find set forth more at large.
Whilest king Richard thus say in Dublin to reduce Ireland vnto due subiection, he was ad∣uertised that Henry duke of Lancaster, that lately before had bene banished, was returned, and ment to bereaue him of the crown. The sonne of which Duke, togyther with the Duke of Gloucesters sonne, the King shutte vp wythin the Castell of Trim, and then taking the Seas, he returned and landed in Wales, where he founde hys de∣fence so weake and vnsure, that finally he came into his aduersaries handes, and was deposed by authoritie of Parliament, and then was the sayd Duke of Lancaster admytted to raigne in hys place.