OF IRELAND. 123 diours, and met the Scots at Kenles, where he was shamefully foyled, his men (as folke supposed) wilfully forsaking him, and hearing false hearts. Vp start the Irish of Mounster at these newes, the Ocooles, Obrines, and Omores, and wasted with fire and sword from Arkloe to Leix ; with them coped the Lord Iustice and made a great slaughter, fourescore of their heads were set upon Divelin Castle. The mean while Edward Bruise raigned in Vlster, held his courts, pronounced his enemies traytors, abandoned the English blood, exhorted the Irish of Leinster to doe the like, whereupon Donald the sonne of Arthur Mac Morrow ', a slip of the royall family, displayed his banner within two miles of Divelin, but him Traherone tooke prisoner, sent him to the castle of Dublin, whence he escaped, slyding downe from the Turret, by a cord that one Adam Mangle brought him. The said Mangle was drawne and hanged. Roger Mortimer x Lord Iustice pacified the displea- sure, betweene Richard Earle of Vlster, and the No- bles that had put the said Earle under surety, mis- deeming him of certaine riots committed against the kings subjects, wherby the Scots caught strength and courage, whose ravening, caused such horrible scarcity in Vlster, that the Souldiours which in the yeare before abused the Kings authority, to purvey themselves of wanton fare, surfeited with flesh and aquavitse all the "1317-
