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Docwra's Relation of Service done in Irlande

Author: Henry Docwra

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John O'Donovan

Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber and Benjamin Hazard

Proof corrections by Beatrix Färber and Benjamin Hazard

Funded by University College Cork.

1. First draft, revised.

Extent of text: 18115 words

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(2011)

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Text ID Number: E610005-001

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    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. John O'Donovan, Docwra's Relation of Service done in Irlande in Miscellany of the Celtic Society. , Dublin, The Celtic Society (1849) volume 1 page 187–213; 214–229

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Created: by Sir Henry Docwra (1614)

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Language: [EN] The text is in seventeenth-century English.
Language: [LA] Some words are in Latin.
Language: [GA] Some words are in Irish.

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