laughed at through the World when they cannot afford me one example neither domestick nor forraigne neither obsolete or moderne neither diuine nor prophane of any subiect stepping awry into the by-waies of rebellion or insurrection that was established by a forraigne Prince except that Prince as I said before proiected by such a bridge to transport his owne power for his owne ends and priuate satisfaction But I would faine disclaime any vnciuill opening the graues of the Dead and content my selfe with displaying the colours of time not yet elapsed from our owne memories When the children of that worthy Edmond Ironside fled into Hungarie from that preuailing greatnesse of Canutus I doe not read of their triumphant returne nor other establishment against that braue Dane till the factions of England broke out into flames of their priuate reuenges When Henry the second had crowned his sonne King of England and that the impatient young man could not endure his owne Father in the competition the Story saies the Prince with his brethren fled into France but how they returned how they prospered how they were supported it is lamentable one way to report and remarkeable another way to relate In that deplorable businesse of Edward the second when his wife and son presumed on the assistance of the French King I hope it was not that power which established the young Prince but the authoritie of Mortimer that suppressed the misled King When Henry the fourth preuailed Queene Isabel fled to her owne brother about the restoring of Richard 2. but to what purpose To bemoane her remedilesse griefes and returne if euer shee did returne without suppliment of sufficient assistance The Earle of Richmond though afterward Henry the seuenth in the confused times of the Yorkest preuailings went into Brittaine and so into France but how he had like to haue beene serued Peter Landoise the Secretary and the Kings gold could then haue vnueiled the corruption of either and when that Fortune led him by the hand to pace out the measures of victories I hope it was no French power but English Friends and the Iustice of Diuine prouidence which seated him so happily in the Throne of greatnesse How Perkin Warbeck for all his exhaled vapouring went forward assisted by the Scottish policie Flemmish credulitie and inueterat malice of the Duches of Burgundy against the house of Lancaster our stages of London haue instructed those which cannot read How the Earle of Westmerland and numbers of English fugitiues haue beene entertained abroad some ouerthrown with calamitous desperation some colluded with the incantations of Friers religious miracles some distracted with guiltines of Conscience some transfounded with ambitious prosecutions some preuaricated with an outward glory of Military profession all men can discouer with repining eyes or else let them ouerlooke a well compacted breuiary to the same purpose discoursing of the entertainement of English fugitiues beyond the Seas In the heate of our Enmity with Spaine Don Antonio King of Portingall flies vnder the couert of a Princely protection which to the admiration of the World so expanded it selfe that we brought him to the gates of Lisbone but were deceiued with his presumptuous weakenesse and ouer-credulous information Somewhat neere the same account another personating the King Sebastian supposedly slaine in the fields of Barbary astonished Florence and Venice with many preuailing probabilities of his life but the King of Spaine was in the strength of a new possession and the Italians too fearefull to rayse vp a Spirit they knew not how to coniure downe againe If you would commiserate the misfortunes of Stukely I could Catalogue all his proceedings and relate that the best glory of his entertainement both with the King of Spaine and the Pope consisted in some poore mercenary allowances and when it was at the highest to flourish onely with the titular dignity of the Marquesse of Dubline but alas it wanted the essentiall parts and proppes of such a businesse Men and Treasure so that I may very well conclude against all such exhalations and infatuated men with the significant Poet Non ideo debet pelago se credere si qua audet in exiguo ludere cimbalacu What say you to Antonio de Peres for whom the warres of Aragon burst forth into the reproach of seditious reuolts and tumultuary disobedience was hee not a while suffulciated amongst vs vntill those vnlookt for conditions of peace hung downe the heads of many military and noble minded English sending him to put his confidence in God for the Princes of the World had failed him You haue heard how the Duchy of Millane was as it were dilacerated with troubles and posted ouer from perplexity to perplexity vntill the Emperour Charles the fift made it a meritorious act to secure it vnder the strength of his protection but alas hee quickly left them staggering in their weakenesse and widened his owne embraces to hug them warme for himselfe and keep them close to the Maiesty of Spaine What say you to the Duke de Maine and many of that French League how did they excruciat themselues to be shouldered aside from their expectation of forraigne coadiutement and when they had laboured to hide themselues in the Reedes of the Arch-Dukes Pooles yet were they faine to make themselues cleane againe by a contrary submission in the springs of their owne Countrey assuring the malecontents of their combination that no Prince will hazard the peace of his Countrey and Treasure of his Common-wealth for any forraigne Subiect liuing vnles as in many places before the proiect is contriued for their owne glory or benefite I could beginne againe with the vnnaturall distractions of the Warres betweene Lancaster and Yorke when Queene Margaret the Virago of her time and her faction fled both into Scotland and France but with what comforts of supportation there and reliefe at home the Catastrophes of her husband and sonne can delineate her misfortunes and her owne dismission out of England bee a sufficient warning to all disastrous Princes especially seditious Subiects neither to trust their owne strength friends in vniustifiable proceedings lest with Phaetons wilfulnesse they finde the Sunnes horses too too headstrong for their managing nor be too confident in the best aduersity on the presidiary helpes of a Stranger if once the businesse tend to draw an Army into the field and as it were to pull off the Gates of anothers Maiesty ouer the hindges But of all other the history of Tirone and Terconell is most lamentable and remarkeable who while I was in Italy passed by Millane to Rome but in such a manner as if Zedechias eyes were put out and the Princes of Iuda carried captiue to Babylon before the Monarch of the East for his entertainement with Spaine was no better then in a common Inne at Milbane with a common tricke to grace and flatter him with a foolish title of the Prince of Ireland and at Rome hee was the
from so dangerous a faction returned our English Commissioners with some amazement at their oratory and cunning insinuation whereby they might haue excused diuers things if by a wrong course they had not incurred the danger of contesting with Princes yea their royall Souereigne whose incensed Maiesty could not indure such opposition whereupon the truce is ouerpassed and the Trumpet of defiance sounded through the Kingdome foreshewing that the Schoolemaster of reformation was at hand and Sir Iohn Norris as Lord Generall of the Armie in the absence of the Deputy ready to display the colours of correction but it should seeme the Deputy would needes haue a share in the glory of this businesse For contrary to his first appointment hee hasted apace and vnited his troopes with Sir Iohn Norris and so both together attended the successe of the matter and prosperity of the time The beginning was a fortunate terrifying him at Armagh and pressing him so closely that the Earle left Black-water Fort dismantled the Towne thereabouts fiered some houses at Dungannon his owne principall seat and secured himselfe in his chiefest fastnesse winning much time by this politike retreat but we vnexperienced in those dangerous places of his boggs and woods with only proclaiming him Traitor in his country and leauing Garrison in Armagh returned which Tirone audaciously interpreted to his owne aduantage repining at nothing more then our fortification in Monaghan Thus was our businesse kept awhile out of the running current of applause For the Deputy and the Generall of the Armie grew to some impatient contradicting one another as if there had beene a fault committed which was questionlesse to be imposed on one of their shoulders wherefore the Deputy commanded or if you wil wished S. I. Norris to prosecute the seruice in Vlster whilst he retired to Dubline to prouide for the peace of the other Prouinces but it preuailed little to the lifting vp the head of the maine body For he performed nothing worthy the glory of his former reputation or dignity of so eminent a place But whether the emulation of the Deputy or fauouring the Earle to whome hee was as much inclined with respect as the Deputy transported with hate Or whether he suspected the businesse in hand the nature whereof with the basenesse and intricate obscurity of the country was so contrarious to the military proceedings elsewhere and spent all mens spirits without so much as the memory of manhood or whether in inclination of fortune he began to stagger from his first firmenes which in a customary defect dealeth strangely with such Commanders somtimes heaping her fauours and prosperous successes anon againe withdrawing her happy hand and by degrees extenuating both their valour fame and iudgement I dispute not vpon Only this I am sure of that faire errors might lead them both For the Deputy by reason of Sir Henry Bagnols and some others despight was brought to looke vpon a very face of disloialty in Tirone and Sir Iohn Norris commiserated his misfortune as abused with dissimulatory submissiue letters in which the Earle was ready on his knees to any penitent prostitution when yet vnder-hand hee implored the aid of Spaine with warrantise that if an Army were intended against England then to vnite their forces if only warres were proclaymed and protraction vsed then must the Catholike King supply them with men and money wherevpon O Roorck Mac Williams and others openly and the Earle priuately subscribed to a certaine instrument of Indenture like ratification giuing yet notice to the State of all these contracts and determinations to which was added another parley with Sir Iohn Norris and Sir Geffery Fenton Secretary in persons full of very strange promises and colluding protestations to runne a race of obedience and loyalty all which accustomed Leuity hee infringed laying imputation vpon the discrepant humors of the Deputy and Lord Generall but especially that his onely enemy the Marshall was returned from England with new forces and inueterate malice against him Whereupon by way of Apology hee excused himselfe to the Councell of England and vrged many iustifiable reasons as he thought for his discrepant proceedings to which it should seem their answere was both distasting and fearefull vnto him For as it were exasperated rather then forewarned he presently returned to his old courses and taking great aduantage of our slacknesse and ill prepared forces spoiled the country filled all the paces with Rebels Barrocaded the passages and with military excursions ran an vncontroulable iourney of doing what he pleased through the North. Thus was all Vlster and most part of Conach excepting certain Garrisons at his absolute command vntil the Lord Borrough 1597. a man of a great spirit and quick capacity was sent Deputy into Ireland from whose worth some auspicious expectation seemed to comfort vs and new endeuours in a manner to warrant new fortunes This sonne of Mars quickly pulled off the clogs of delay within two moneths rolled the stone of Tirones vnquietnesse making way with great industrie and vertue into his country fortifying the Fort of Black-water and discouering this secret that neyther his Boggs Glinns Woods Mountaines Paces Confederats or any power of Ireland or Irish coadiutors could hide him from the searching eyes of England Besides if we would vndertake an industrious prosecution against him it was neyther Spayne with her Gold nor the Pope with his Fulminations against our Countrey could secure him For the farre reaching armes of our people would for a neede pull him out of the Center of the Earth and thus accordingly euen at the first skirmishes were his forces dissipated and the best troopes disranked but as my Lord was giuing God thankes with a warlike solemnity a sudden Alarum set them anew to worke and Henry Earle of Kildare with the Gent. Volentiers had the Fortune to put him againe to flight which yet yeelded not so full a satisfaction as it might haue done because my Lord lost his brother in Law Francis Vaughan and Captaine Turner Sergeant Maior besides the Earle of Kildare to the sorrow of his heart saw two of his brethren wrapped vp in the Bed of blood all men of worthy expectation and extraordinary Merit Thus is a way made into his Countrey and Black-water Fort strengthened with new trenches not without some ramparts and Caffamates which the enemy so repined at that betweene hope feare and shame they resolued to dismantle it had not the Lord Deputy opened more larger embracings and with a new manner of wrestling resolued to lay him on the ground irrecouerably but hinc illae lachrimae as he was treading the measures of prosperity an vntimely discord of Death sounding Musike deceiued him of hope and vs of him whose forwardnes and vertue with a little addition of experience and solid vnderstanding himselfe had no doubt effectuated this Herculian labour of Irelands peace Now is Tyrone putting on his Icarean wings and the Rebell with accustomed Clamors taking aduantage of
to be couered vsing him with honourable respect both at his bord priuate conferences and so within two daies brought him as a trophe of his victories into Dublin with a full resolution to carry him into England and present him to her Maiestie But now is the Sunne of that glory ecclipsed and the Diuine prouidence thought it meet to take her into his owne protection For after she had liued and raigned to the admiration of all nations and filled the world with the fame of her vertues foure and forty yeeres and renowne of life three-score and ten shee was ordained for a better Kingdome and the foure and twenty day of March 1602. went to take possession of it My Lord had notice long before of her decaying which peraduenture was an incitation the rather for the taking in of Tirone though he vnderstood not so much So this great Queene the Wonder of Time the Admiration of her Sex the Help of all Nations the Princesse of Fame the Mistrisse of Honour the Terror of Antechrist and the Commandrix of Fortune left her name euerlasting and dignity vnmatchable For beleeue it what forraine Prince soeuer more then to admire her shall striue to imitate her will but wrong Maiesty and discouer this imperfection that emulation is comitant to vertue and when wee cannot attaine to the transcendency of anothers excellency wee fall to vilipending the worth and malicious calumniation of the goodnes and heerein let England reioyce that the starre of dignity and fame of those times was set vnder her climate by her death and in her life she treasured such iewels of estimation that the storehouses of other palaces could not discouer or shew the like As for Rome and some defamatory inuentions of Spaine the poyson hath returned to their owne preiudice like him which spitting against the winde found his face besmeered with the reflexion For the better sort both misliked Parsons and other English Priests in their degenerating inuectiues and stopped the mouths of inferiours for once breathing amisse against her Maiesty which makes mee remember a worthy reprehension of Count Mansfield toward Captaine Rowland Yorke forbidding him some loosnesse of speech against his Queene and when he transgressed further in vndecencies of fault-finding both with the gouernment and life of her Maiesty in plainer termes he assured him that the customs of his table wold admit of no irregular behauior against Princes Nor can I forget Duke Byrons admiration who at his returne into France plainely diuulged that the Court of England spred abroad the coulours of Maiesty indeed and all others were but a heap of confusion and diseased mixture of vnseemely familiarity But this is a digression for mine own part therefore I will onely blesse her vnimitable renowne and end with the Poet O quam te memorem virgo Namque haud tibi vultus Mortalis nec vox hominum sonat ô Deo certè And so to our Irish businesse againe They which write of the nature of things say plainely which also experience confirmes that as there is a sympathy and sweet agreement in many creatures as beasts plants and diuers of that sort each thriuing the better by the others proximity and conuersation So there is a kinde of antipathy and eternall loathsomnesse betweene creature and creature and many times such an abhorrency that the very sight and intermixture of things breedeth death or other mischeefe Thus is it apparant in diuers plants growing neere the Eugh tree which either perish immediately or wither by degrees without any prosperity they which are skilfull in musique say that the strings of wolues sheep make a discord and will neuer effect either Diapason or harmony It is recorded that when Eteocles and Pollinices the sonnes of Oedipus were burned after they had slaine one another according to the solemnity of sacrifices in those dayes the very flame diuided it selfe shewing that the hate lasted in death which could not be reconciled in life and if in any thing it euer appeared it was and is most probable in the nature and condition of the Irish and our selues For though they haue beene many times reduced by conformable perswasion and as many times corrected by powerfull castigation yet nothing could detaine them within the circle of obedience or fasten them to the dore-post of loue and duty nor was this the errour and enmity of the North or as you terme it the wilde Irish only but the inficious disposition of the whole Nation against whom Tirone himselfe in the behalfe of our countrey hath gone in person as in the excursions of Munster Lease Ophaly Meths and Conach may appeare yea at this instant for all the backe of rebellion seemed broken and that this great prop of supportation Tirone was taken from them whereby they were past all hope of coadiutement either from him or Spaine yet did the poison of their malice and despight burst out into boiles and botches of deformity by rebellion against the King himselfe to welcome him the better euen the first yeere of his establishment in an vncontroulable Maiesty all which did questionlesse arise from an inueterate hate and innated antipathy against vs. Againe whereas no venomous beast will liue nor is bred in Ireland insomuch that Beda reporteth that in those dayes when the I le of Man bred a controuersie to which Kingdome it did appertaine whether England or Ireland the deciding of the same consisted in this to carry certain snakes and toades into the Countrey which if they agreed in the same and did liue would easily approoue it English but if they died and miscarried then questionlesse by naturall probability Ireland had the propriety wherein the Diuine Prouidence was much glorified that would not altogether ouer-poyson a nation with noysome creatures and beasts considering the people were bad enough of themselues and had their very blouds corrupted with the venome of malice enuy disdaine pride and reuenge euen against one another and against vs if it were possible the very stones and houses seemed to swell with mislike and grow bigg againe with the tumors of ambitious rebellion which more apparantly appeared in the treasons of diuers towns by name Waterford Corcke and Limricke who vpon the false alarum of S r. Iames Gouths warrantize from England for the toleration of religion went as freshly to masse as if the Pope himselfe had established his superstitious canons in the same Nor was this done out of zeale or indirect deuotion according to the simplicity of diuers who were willing to maintaine the Catholique cause but with fury rage and military directions these strong townes entertained a presumption of fortifying themselues against the power of England Whereupon my Lord Deputy was compelled to leaue Tirone to himselfe with a kinde of confidence of his loyalty and politique directions for the superuizing of his actions and in person went forward to the suppressing these insolencies vnfolding againe to his great greefe and vnquietnes the woond vp
truce of his Country raised his forces mustred his Rebells rumored the inuasion of England by Spaine and audaciously set open all the passages of war and defiance whereupon the Traytours increased both in pride and numbers and those which were meere Irish expected their pristinate liberty such againe as had settled their estates either by purchase or gift of the Prince began to misdoubt themselues when they perceiued such a confluence and concurrence of tumultuary businesse to the detriment of the Kingdome yea I am afrayd they were without all hope in their hearts when Tirone proclaimed himselfe Protector of Ireland and Maintainer of the Catholique Religion nor was this onely titular and a formall tricke of vaine promises and flattering friends For he proceeded accordingly imperiously managing all affaires vnder his gouernment the rebellious he moderated the weake supported the strong confirmed the staggering reduced the wilfull punished and in a word applied himselfe altogether to the extirpation of the English whereunto he was animated by assured intelligence of preparations in Spaine and the receiuing a competent treasure from thence Nor wanted there certaine indulgences and promises from the Pope to set his desire on a blaze but when for a present hee had receiued an hollowed Phoenix plume with Ixion that boasted of lying with Iuno being yet deceiued with the shape of a clowd hee presaged good fortune and ranne away with full confidence of successe and the rather because hee remembred how Vrban the third had sent King Iohn a crowne of peacockes feathers at his designation for the Lordship of Ireland Thus marched he ouer the Countrey with extraordinarie preuailing and vnaccustomed pomp for an Irish Commander with new publications of his regardable proceedings and Princely confirmations And to adde fuell to that fire which in his absence was kindled in Munster he went thither in person and vnder colour of visiting a peece of the crosse of Christ in Tiperary attempted further sending Mac-Guior to forage the country who chancing on S r. Warrham Selenger fell to blowes and in gallant encounter charged one another so brauely that with their staues they equally received their deaths wounds through their bodies which a while curbed Tirones headstrongnesse and peraduenture was cause of his sooner retiring home after he had celebrated Mac-Guiors exequies but in truth the aduertisement of the Earle of Ormonds comming against him with all the English forces rebated his first forwardnesse and made him suspect all was not so well as he wished but yet animated by many superstitious presages and giuing all credit to his Bards and Rimers of which sort of people especially if I adde the Priests I will bee bolde to say thus much that they are the very bane and confusion of Ireland liuing in such obscenity and filthinesse that no Gentlewoman thinketh herselfe happy without them and supposeth it no disgrace euen to bee prostituted vnto them Insomuch that ill custome besides the intolerable yoke of superstition to which these people are out of measure addicted hauing got the vpperhand these insorcering wretches at marriages feasts births of children contracts burialls and peraduenture all their liues time challenge certaine priuiledges immunities and gifts yea priuacies with the women and imperious ouerruling the men So that as their families encrease in mightinesse these damnable creatures prosper in reputation as if all blessings depended vpon their incantations and prayers no action could thriue without their crossings and sanctifying So that in my conscience the most of the rebells and strumpets amongst them are the bastards of these rogues and vagabonds and all the treasons which haue turmoiled our Nation haue receiued life and originall from their imposturing and perswasions By this time is S r. Charles Blunt Lord Montioy confirmed Deputy of Ireland on whom long since the Queene had looked with respect for the same purpose But the Earle of Essex proposing to himselfe the managing of all military affaires somewhat couertly impugned the same extenuated his experience in the warres and that hee onely had a view of some skirmishes in the Low Countries Besides his spirit was not stirring enough to curb such a Nation as giuen ouer much to his booke and a kinde of retired melancholy rather fit for ciuill gouernment then violent hurliburlies All which wiped not yet out the print of her good opinion but shee went forward in her choyce and made the election more notable because her owne iudgement affoorded sufficient reason of his merit onely she proposed before him by way of caution my Lord of Essex wilfulnesse and in a manner presumption practizing diuers things against her liking and prescription and so alike restrained his commission and by word of mouth commanded his charines and wisdom concerning the knighting of men which must needes be vilipended brought once to a community as for any hinderances by the maleuolent aspect of single Councellours shee promised on her Princely word that shee would bee the Queene of her Kingdome and no man should contract a brow of mislike or preuaile in any secret information against him whereupon hee was much comforted and well hoped that that enmity which was whispered betweene M r. Secretary and him I meane S r. Robert Cecill might be easily reconciled and as it were like the swet of a mans browes wiped away with a gentle hand which accordingly came to passe For when certaine honest men performed good offices betweene them neuer man obserued such a Councellour of State better than my Lord did him nor such a greatnesse honoured a person in such an eminent place then M r. Secretary did my Lord so that to their dying dayes their friendship was indissoluble and as they loued one another so both respected the glory of their country before one another Thus without any publique ostentation or great attendancy in the month of February 1600. he tooke his iourney toward Ireland and was welcommed to our true-hearted English as you see a famous Physician presented to a sicke patient who hath long expected his comming For hee found Ireland so desperate languishing that he rather feared her funerals then recouery which must bee so at this instant considering the very best did droop with despaire and the worst insulted with pride Tyrone passed and repassed without controll and the Rebell had nothing in his mouth but the Spanish Inuasion and that Tyrone should bee the Prince of their Countrey vnder the Catholique King whereupon to exasperate the new Deputy and terrifie him at the first they gaue an assault to the suburbs of Dublin and the Alarum rung euen to the Castle where my Lord was resident which indeede so much incensed him that he resolued to intercept his returne out of Munster whatsoeuer chanced and so gathering together the rest of the dispersed forces and taking along such Gentlemen as came with him out of England he marched into Fereall for you must consider the maine army was with my Lord of Ormond in Munster and
determined to see the manner of Tyrones returning home into his Countrey but was preuented by the admirable expedition hee made For certified of all our proceedings not without some ampliation of my Lords power and authority as in all such cases it happens that new Gouernours are not onely extolled but an army of a thousand by poll shall be made two thousand by report he quickly procured a shelter for the storme which was threatned and euen ready to powre vpon him and so taking the way of Lease and the skirts of Meath posted into the North. When my Lord Deputy was thus frustrated of his expectation he returned to Dublin and after orderly consultation concluded to send forces by sea to Logh-Foile and Balishanon as also to Logh-Erne to visit Lease and Ophaly to restore Munster and fortifie Conach which as they were designes of wonderfull consequence so must as wonderfull wisdome of men and prouidence of God effectuate the same and bring to a happy period Thus was all Ireland like a turbulent sea full of billowes euen to the very shores and the Rebell vexed both Countrey and Inhabitants the country was spoiled ouerrunne and in most parts depopulated insomuch that in diuers places twenty mile together not so much as a bird appeared the inhabitants were slaine rauished enforced and robbed insomuch that neither house nor Church except some few castles and townes in speciall mens hands remained vpright but were burnt ruined and deuasted When my Lord Deputy to make my first simile hold correspondency felt the pulses so strong of this disquieted body and vnderstood the state of the same by outward and inward demostration his principall care was to reduce the distemperature and coole the heat if it were possible of this burning feauer for which purpose hee conferred with the Councell and after orderly and prouident furnishing his army with munition garons and seuerall prouision he determined in person and with all speedinesse sometimes the onely strength and life of all difficult enterprizes to encounter the enemy but especially to diuert Tyrone from intercepting S r. Henry Dockeray at Logh-Foile and S r. Matthew Morgan at Balishanon whereupon in the beginning of May an early time to bring an army into the field hee marched toward Vlster and pressed the Rebell with so many skirmishes that they were wonderfully dispersed and against all expectation confounded Thus had hee leasure in the midst of Iune to march backe againe into Lease the onely refuge of the Rebels of Lemster where with admirable successe he preuailed against that turbulent cruell and bloudy young man Ony-Mac-Roory-Oge the cheefe of the family of O-more who had so lately disturbed the peace of all Munster to whom with other his most pestilent and impious confederates did our Deputy read a lesson of Iustice and taught rebellion other principles of conformity then either they were willing to learne or had beene before orderly enstructed in by which occasion Bellona began to giue vs better entertainment and already there appeared a declining of the others prosperity Thus was the God of battells propitious vnto vs and the sunne of comfort by degrees chased away the foggy mists of despaire and despight so that euery mans heart was cheered and they which held downe their heads full low in the time of mistrust and affliction I meane the Irish-English themselues in the pale beganne to stand vpright for ioy and flocked to the court in troops to welcome my Lord Deputy home and applauded the prosperity of his attempts yea to speake without flattery to impute the happinesse to his vertue and wisdome In the midst of this iollity new supplies out of England gaue more aire to successe which had beene so long smoothered betweene malignant circumstances of time and ill conditions of men deuoted to priuate ends For this is most certaine that in the vncertainty of our preuailing when the gouernment of Ireland seemed layd at the stake howeuer the better sort kept correspondency with vs and professed a kinde of glory in participating with our misfortunes yet did they vnderhand not onely releeue Tyrone but contracted for their owne security if any alteration should chance yea in some of our extremities they behaued themselues so audaciously and yet with an vntoward policy that when they were sent for to march with the army they made dilatory excuses and many times denied such attendance as if they had businesse sufficient to keepe their owne territories from robbery and spoiles But our worthy Deputy againe with these new troops he vndertooke the iourney of the Moiry three miles beyond Dondalk and attempted an impetuous assault which continued with many dangerous and violent skirmishes For his horse was shot vnder him his Secretary slaine by him his friends wounded and diuers Commanders hurt yet he endured all and the God of heauen endured him so that at the last with a memorable slaughter and fortunate victory hee enforced them from his fastnesse Presently finding sweet beginnings to breath life into actions he marched to Armagh and tumbled those hindrances on to side which had made that passage so noysome and because he would maintaine an old position Non minor est virtus quam quaerere parta tueri He built a fort called Mount Norris within eight miles of the Newry and in a manner the mid-way to Armagh in honour of that worthy Generall vnder whom he was introducted on the martiall theater In his returne passing ouer many light skirmishes neere vnto Carlingford hee preuailed with a memorable defeature of the rest and so stored the castles with strong wards making the narrow water passible and sending the pestilent Kerne lurking in euery corner to seeke for better shelter For these new and terrible stormes had shattered their olde couerts and almost beaten them to peeces ouer their heads Not long after in the midst of winter he coasted into the Glins by Dublin where Donnell-Spaniah-Phelin and Raymond-Mac-Feugh with that pestilent rabble of O-Tooles held such a quarter that no man before him had either leisure to disranke them or sufficient forces to raise them from their firmnesse these yet he subdued reduced and led them by strong hand to such a way of obedience that Sir Henry Harrington vnder him went quietly to Newcastle and had the principall command ouer them yea I can assure you were glad to be inuited to the pleasures of his peace and entertainment and Raymond-Mac-Feugh as I take it was his tenant for Baltinglas and gloried in nothing more then that hee had sworne himselfe a true subiect to the Maiestie of England Lastly he hasted into Feriall where the Rebell Tirrell was pulled out of his darke corners into the open light of discomfiture and in the end compelled into Vlster to the great Cōmander of their facinorous enterprizes whither his Lordship followed with admiration and preuailed with all the aduantages of a fortunate Captaine For in truth he attempted nothing but preuailed and with the Centurion in the