A chronicle of the Kings of England, from the time of the Romans goverment [sic] unto the raigne of our soveraigne lord, King Charles containing all passages of state or church, with all other observations proper for a chronicle / faithfully collected out of authours ancient and moderne, & digested into a new method ; by Sr. R. Baker, Knight.

Of his Acquest of Ireland.

RObert Fits-stephen was the first of all Englishmen, after the Conquest, that en∣tred Ireland, the first day of May, in the yeare 1170. with 390. men: and there took Werford, in the behalfe of Deruntius, sonne of Marcherdach, called Mac Murg, King of Leymster. In September following, Richard Earle of Chepstow, surnamed Strong-bow, sayled into Ireland with twelve hundred men, where he tooke Water∣ford and Dublin; and married Eeve, the daughter of Deruntius, as he was promi∣sed. From these beginnings, King Henry being then at rest from all Hostile Armes, both at home and abroad, takes into his consideration the Kingdome of Ireland, as a Kingdome which oftentimes afforded assistance to the French; and therefore purposing with himselfe by all meanes to subdue it: he provides a mighty Army, and in the Winter season saileth thither, taking Shipping at Pembroke, and landing neare to Waterford: where entring into consultation what course was fittest to be taken in the enterprise, suddenly of their owne accord, the Princes of the Countrey came in, and submitted themselves unto him, onely R••d••rick King of Connacht stood

out; who being the greatest, thought to make himselfe the onely King of that Na∣tion: but King Henry forbearing him for the present, who kept himselfe in his fast∣nesses of Bogges and Woods, and was not to be followed in the Winter season: takes his journey to Dublin, the chiefe City of the Countrey; and there calling the Princes and Bishops of the Nation together, requires their consent to have him and his heires to be their King: which they affirming they could not doe without the Popes authority; to whom, at their first conversion to the Christian Religion, they had submitted themselves; the King sent presently to Adrian the then Pope an English man, requiring his assent; which upon divers good considerations he granted: and hereupon the King built him a stately Palace in the City of Dublin; and having thus without bloud possest himselfe of the Kingdome, the Spring fol∣lowing he returnes joyfully into England. About foure yeares after Rodorick also sends his Chancellour to King Henry, to offer his submission, with a tribute to be paid of every tenne beasts, one sufficient. After this, in the one and thirtieth yeare of his Raigne, he sent his sonne Iohn to be the Governour there.