122 campion's historic (Hours committed sacriledge and impiety, against Mo- nasteries, Tombes, Altars, Virgins, robbed Churches of all their plate and ornaments. They of Vlster, sent to the Lord Iustice pittifull supplication, for aide in this misery, who delivered them the Kings power and standard, wherewith under pretence to expell the Scots, they raunged through the country with more grievance and vexation to the subjects, then did the strangers. Le Bruise proceeded and spoyled Cashell, and wheresoever he lighted upon the JButlers lands, those hee burned and destroyed unmercifully. By this time w had the Lord Iustice, and Thomas Fitz Iohn Earle of Kildare, Richard de Clare, and Arnold de Powere^ Baron of Donoile, furnished and armed thirty thousand men ready to set forward. Then came newe« that William de Burgo the Earles brother was taken by the Scots, whereof the Irish of Vlster imboldened with the presence of the Scotish Army, and with the late discomfiture which Earle Richard Burcke sus- tained at Coynes, denyed their alleagance openly, and conspired in the behalfe of Edivard le Bruise, whom they proclaimed King. The Lord Iustice had assem- bled such force against them, under the leading of the Geraldines and Poweres, that each of them was thought sufficient, by himself, to winne the field. But suddainely the two Captaines, and their adherents squared, so as no good conclusion might be inferred : Roger Mortimer, trusting by their discention to im- beazell a victory, culled out fifteene thousand Soul- " 1317.
