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[ ] relation of Irland [ ]
[ ] Irish in the [same]
[ ] of Irland ther be 3. kind of Irish
[ ] Irish, english Irish, & mixt
[ ancient], Irish, discend from the Span[ish]
[ ] [thowsand?] yeares agoe, gott that
[ m] the grecians. and governed it, wth, [ ]
[ ], being holpen therin, by th[ ]
[ ] holines of many holy miracu[ ]s, and
[ ] of ther owne, untill the comi[ng]
[ ]anes, the wch, by ouerthrowinge & distroinge
[ ] uniuers[itis], in that [Iland], brought much barb
[ ] [c]ustoms [wch tyrr?ny]; after wch, [f?d] even
in the Irish themselues, sines and offen[c?s ]
[civell?] wars, and domesticall hattred, [ ].

Notable [w]as the wickenes of Dormitius O Mo[ ],
kinge of Leinster, one of the fyve kings of Irland,
who toke away, by force, the wyffe of O Rourke
another kinge of [the same?] Iland, for wch the said
D[e]rmitius, beinge pursued by O Rourke, was [faine]
to [flie] the land, & to [crave] aid, and [assistance],
of Henry the 2: kinge of England; who at that
tyme was in Frannce, who gave free lybertie
to all his subiectes, that voluntarily would h[ ]
Dormitius to recover his lost kingdome; wh[ ]
wch aid, wth certaine of the kinge of Englands [ ]
he recovered his owne, and laid hold [ ]
[mens] land besides: Henry the 2: seinge th[ ]
devided [amo]ngest them selves, by a fa[lse]