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MacSweeney struck Great Darcy such a blow that he put Darcy on his knee: that Nangle, Baron of Navan, being a lusty gentleman, that day gave MacSweeney such payment that he was satisfied ever after.
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Elizabeth, who married
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of 1518 refers to his widow as having remarried. She was
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