The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
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In the yeere 1166. two Comets appeared in the moneth of August before the rising of the Sunne, one to the South and another to the North. In the yeere 1171. Richard earle of Penbroke sailed into Irland, and subdued Dublin with a great part of Irland. In the yere 1176. Iohn Curcy conquered Vlster vnto himselfe. And at the same time also Viuianus legate from the sea of Rome came into Man, & caused king Godred to bee lawfully wedded vnto his wife Phingola, daughter of Maclotlen son of Murkartac king of Irland, mother of Olauus, who was then 3. yeeres old. Siluanus the abbat married them, vnto whom the very same day, king Godred gaue a portion of ground in Mirescoge, where he built a Monastery: howbeit, in processe of time, the said land with the monkes, was granted vnto the abbey of Russin. In the yere 1172. Reginaldus the son of Eacmarcat (a man descended of the blood royal) comming into Man with a great multitude of people, in the absence of the king, at the first conflict hee put to flight certaine watchmen which kept the shoare, & slue about 30. persons. Whereupon the very same day the Mannians arranging themselues put him, & almost almost al his folowers to the sword. In the yere 1183. O-Fogolt was vicount of Man. In the yere 1185. the Sunne was ecclipsed vpon the feast of S. Philip and Iacob. In the yere 1187. deceased Godred king of the Islands, vpon the 4. of the |
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