Let us now resume our narrative from the date of the tournament; soon
after which King Edward died, and Sir John Stanley, in the first year of
his successor, Richard II., was honoured by him with a commission to
Ireland, for the purpose of assisting in the total reduction of that
unfortunate kingdom. By his great prudence and success he brought under
submission the great rebel chiefs, to wit, O'Neal, King of Ulster;
Rotherick O'Connor, King of Connaught; O'Caral, King of Uriel; O'Rurick,
King of Meath; Arthur M'Kier, King of Leinster; and O'Brien, King of
Thomond. In the year 1379, Richard coming in person to Ireland, these
chieftains did homage to him as their sovereign prince. For his great
and eminent services on this occasion Sir John had granted to him, by
patent for life, the manor and lands of Black Castle in that country.
Ten years did Sir John sojourn, by the king's order, in this unquiet
and troublesome appendage to the English crown. And it may be conceived
that if true love had any hold on his affections, they were oft
communing with Isabella, forsaken, as she then thought, by him whom she
had once too surely trusted.
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