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intention to slay the king, stoode a-side in the midst of the 

 house talking with one of the Princes of the lande. And 

 being called to come unto the king he turned himselfe about 

 as if hee would have saluted him, and lifting up his glittering 

 axe, he chopt the kings head quite off at a blow. Nowe ii43- 

 having committed this outragious vilanie, within a short 

 space they divided the Island betweene themselves, and 

 gathering an armie together sailed unto Galway, intending 

 to subdue that also ; howbeit the people of Galway 

 assembled themselves, and with great furie encountred 

 with them. Then they immediately turning their backs 

 with great confusion fled unto Man. And as touching all 

 the Galwedians which inhabited in the said Island, some of 

 them they slue, and the residue they banished. 



In the yeere 1 143. Godredus sonne of Olavus returning 

 out of Norway was created king of Man ; who in revenge 

 of his fathers death, put out the eyes of two of Haralds 

 sonnes and slue the thirde. 



In the yeere 1144. Godredus began his reigne, and hee 

 reigned thirtie yeeres. In the thirde yeere of his reigne 

 the citizens of Dublin sent for him and created him king 

 of Dublin, against whom Murecardus king of Irland made 

 warre, and encamping himselfe at the citie called Coridelis, 

 he sent his brother Osibel with 3000. horsemen unto 

 Dublin, who was slaine by Godred and the Dubliners, the 

 rest of his company being put to flight. These things 

 being thus finished, Godredus returned unto Man, and 

 began to exercise tyrannic, disinheriting certaine of his 

 nobles, of whom one called Thorfinus the sonne of Oter, 

 being mightier then the rest, went unto Sumerledus, and 

 named Dubgal the sonne of Sumerledus, king of the 

 Islands, and subdued many of the said Islands on his 

 behalfe. Whereof when Godred had intelligence by one 

 Paulus, providing a Navie, hee went to meete Sumerledus 

 comming against him with 80. ships : and in the yeere 

 1 1 56. upon the night of the feast of Epiphanie, there was 1156. 

 a Sea-battell fought, and many being slaine on both parts, 

 the day folowing they were pacified, and divided the 



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