THE KINGS OF MAN * ad. 



1249. 



Joseph unto Man, that they might enter into consultation 

 together. Wherfore the 25. day they assembled them- 

 selves at Tingvalla : and malice growing betweene the 

 sonnes of Nel, and Loglen, they fel to blowes and skir- 

 mished sore on both parts, Molmore, Dufgald, and the 

 foresaid Joseph being all slaine in the fray. The Spring 

 folowing, king Harald came into the isle of Man, and 

 Loglen fleeing into Wales, was himselfe, together with 

 Godred the sonne of Olavus his pupil, and 40. others, 

 drowned by shipwracke. 



In the yere 1238. Gospatricius and Gillescrist sonne of 

 Mac-Kerthac came from the king of Norway unto Man, 

 expelling Harald out of the said island, and taking tribute 

 on the behalfe of the Norwegian king, because the said 

 Harald refused to come unto his Court. 



In the yere 1240. Gospatricius deceased and was buried 

 in the abbey of Russin. 



In the yere 1239. Haraldus went unto the king of 

 Norway, who within two yeres confirmed unto him, his 

 heires and successors, under scale, all the islands which his 

 predecessors enjoyed. 



In the yeere 1242. Haraldus returned out of Norway 

 unto Man, and being honourably received by the inhabi- 

 tants, he lived in peace with the kings of England and 

 Scotland. 



In the yeere 1247. Haraldus (like as his father also before 

 him) was knighted by the king of England, and so being 

 rewarded with many gifts, he returned home. The same 

 yere he was sent for by the king of Norway, and he 

 maried his daughter. And in the yere 1249. as he was 

 returning home with his wife, with Laurence the elect of 

 Man, and with many other nobles, neere unto the confines 

 of Radland, he was drowned in a tempest. 



In the yere 1249. Reginald the sonne of Olavus, and 

 brother unto Harald began to reigne the day next before 

 the Nones of May : and upon the 30. day of the same 

 moneth he was slaine by Yvarus a souldier, and other of 

 his complices, in the South part of a certaine medow, 



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