Cow for a moneths pay or six pence per diem Which businesse was to be furthered by the Queens Agent in Scotland but it came to nothing being disliked in England Now the Deputy resolved to pursue the Rebels in many places at once both by the North Garrisons and the rest of the Army Aprill the third the Lord Deputy sent Master Secretary notice of the falsheartednesse of those that seemed most sure and that the Irish Commanders were dangerous to keep yet knew not how to remove them without certain losse of them And how he intended to send a thousand old Souldiers out of Dublin to Loghfoyle and others to lye in Garrison at Balishannan both places of great consequence and proved very advantageous to the English afterwards And informed likewise that Tyrone by his so suddain and hasty flight out of Munster had much disheartned many of his Confederates so that daily the heads of some Rebels or others were brought unto the Deputy And the Rebels of Lemster made suit to be received to mercy only the Towns where the Rebels had to do were very insolent And Tyrone by the arrivall of two ships wherein were many Priests did incourage his friends Lastly the Deputy complained to the Secretary that all places were bestowed in England so that he could gratifie no deserving man Further hee sent word that hee doubted of the Earle of Ormonds constancy to the Queenes cause and shewed his reasonsa name greatly followed in that Countrey In that Province of Munster the Rebels were very strong by reason Tyrone had been there and by the aide of Mac Carty more There hapned an ill chance about the time that Sir George Carew went to his charge of Munster whereof he was President Who comming to Kilkenney in his way from Dublin with the Earle of Thomond in his company and a hundred horse to attend him where the Earle of Ormond told them that he was to parley with some Rebels of those parts whereof Owâ—y Mâ—c Rory was chiefe and requested them to accompany him To which they consented and rode eight miles to the place of meeting with some twenty horse of the Earle of Ormonds and a few followers refusing the guard of the Lord Presidents 100 horse and the Earl of Ormond left his two hundred foot two miles short and with his other company met with Owny who came out of the Woods leaving five hundred men well appointed not farre off came up to him with some pikes but after an houre spent and nothing agreed on the Lord President wisht the Earle of Ormond to returne but he said hee would first speak with the Jesuit Archer and did much revile him calling him Traytor In the mean time the Rebels foot had incompassed the Earle and his company and presently tooke the Earle of Ormond prisoner and Mac Rory laid hands on the Lord President but the Earle of Thomound rushed on him with his horse and they both hardly escaped the Earle of Thom. being hurt in the thigh The Countesse of Ormond having one only daughter was much perplexed and distressed but the Lord Deputy sent her a Guard for her House There were severall conceits upon his surprisall some supposing it was not against his owne will but howsoever the Lord Deputy thought it a matter of no great consequence The Fort of Phillipstown in Ophaly was to be victualled and the Rebels gave cut that they would hinder it And through the emulation of a great Commander that had another preferred before him and strengthened by the Court faction in England It might have miscarried for the said Commander chose out some weake companies for this service to be led by the other but the Deputy being advertised thereof profered them to him that had made the choise of them but hee refused to goe with them And Sir Oliver Lambert with 14 companyes did with much valour and courage effect the businesse though strongly opposed May the fifth the Lord Deputy makes toward Tyrone in the North who had intelligence that he was lodged in the strong Fortresse of Coughlurkin where the Rebels had fortified three miles in length His Lordship drew towards Armagh with 1500 hundred foot and two hundred horse and sent Captain Edward Blany with five hundred foot and fifty horse to make good the passage through the Moyry for the Earle of Southampton and Sir Oliver Lambert who were to come that way to the Army and comming to the Faghard not far from Dundalke whether hee went to the Earle and told him of the convoy assuring him that the Lord Deputy would meet him by two of the clocke in the afternoon hereupon the Earle having with him besides the conuoy two foot companyes and fifty horse of Gentlemen Volunteers and so marched backe to the dangerous passage of the Moyry where the Rebels taking advantage of the Woods and Bogs assailed our men lying lurking on both sides our men being to passe over a Ford But by this time the Lord Deputy himselfe was come neere the place who sent two Regiments who beat backe the Rebels who left a few to skirmish with those two Regiments and the rest fell back into the Wood and issued out upon the Reare brought up by the Earle of Southampton with great fury both with horse and foot But Sir Henry Foliot made very good stand and Sir Oliver Lambert taking his colours in his own hand with some thirty of the Earle of Southamptons best men hastened towards the assaylants to second the Earle who behaved himselfe with great courage and made the Rebels give ground Tyrone was seene not farre off with great forces yet fell not on so that they marched to the Camp little hurt being done to the English but much to the Rebels May the 26 the Deputy had Letters from the Lords in England and it was only to answer the demands of some Irish Lords upon submission June the 19 the Lord Deputy sent to Master Secretary how that certain aide was come from Spaine to the Rebels and makes a request for a fleet to lie on the Coast of Ireland and some small Barks to hinder the Scots from relieving the Irish Now Sir Samuel Bagnal drew out of the Newry into Monaghan where he took some booty and slue six Commanders and many of the Rebels men with little damage to himselfe Many Rebels of Lemster now seek for mercy but are not admitted except some service done for the Queene against their companions Two chiefe Rebels offer to submit but neither could be received without the others head His Lordship now out of England required to doe some thing against the Lemster rebels in his way thither tooke two hundred Cowes seven hundred Garrais and five hundred sheep burning and wasting the corne all the way as he went to a most dangerous passage where Sir Oliver Lambert was appointed to meet him both being constrained to fight all the way with the rebels untill they met having done much harme unto the
Abbey where his Lordship proclaimed Tirrils head at two thousand Crowns and so assayled the Island But the next day the foure and twentieth of February so much snow fell that nothing could be done and in the night the Rebels stole away quitting the Island and left some store of corne and a few cattell so his Lordship passed beyond the Island into a Plain destroying the corn and burning the houses as he went into Meth and then to Trim and so marched into the Ferney from whence to Ardes so seven miles to Mellifont then to Drogedagh two miles where he stayed untill the tenth of Aprill and then went to Dublin in all which passage nothing of moment was done but visiting some chiefe Subjects and striking terrour to the Rebels About this time his Lordship had order for the proclayming of a base coine and cry down the currant To hinder the Rebels traffick as was pretended but it proved the undoing of the poore souldier each shilling having but two pence half-peny silver in it so that commodities were raised to an excessive rate and the exchange which was formerly provided for their helpe was growne difficult or altogether put down At Drogedah his Lordship altered the list of the foot but not the horse and disposed them into Garrisons Her Majesties charge in the yeere 1600 to 1601 by establishment and orders for increase was 276914l 9s 4d Out of which by his Lordships providence was saved 15262l 6s 5d Also by Checks imposed on the Army 1729l So the charges that yeere besides munition and other extraordinaries 234622. Certaine businesses that hapned in Munster that yeere under the command of the Lord President Sir George Carew In generall some submitted and some revolted His Lordship comming to Dungarun had notice that Florence Mac Caâ—â—ie though hee had received favours from the State was entred into action for so they call Rebellion and raised in Carby and Desmond of the Provincialls and Bonnaghs for so are hired souldiers called two thousand foot never assailed the English untill they came betweene Kinsale and Cork where they set on Captain Flowre Serjeant Major of Munster who had 1200 foot and 100 horse who did valiantly resist and beat back the Rebels though he had two horse killed under him yet were 100 of the Rebels slain upon which Florence Mac Carty submits and yielded his son for pledge Now plots are laid for the killing of the titular Earle of Desmond by one Dermod Oconner who had married the Daughter of the old Earle of Desmond and had the leading of 14000 Bonnaghs who after surprised him by a tricke and presently sent his wife to the Lord President for the mony promised in reward and wished him to come to Kilmâ—…h and there hee would bring him but the Rebels in the way rescued him and set him free again May the twentieth his Lordship took the field and marched towards Liâ—â—eck and from place to place prosecuted the rebels so close that many submitted and others fled out of the Country and the titular Earle of Desmond by Sir Charles Wilâ—â—â— was quite driven out of the Countrey in whose passage Sir George Thornton sent out the Garrison and killed 120 of the Rebels and got 320 Garrans laden with baggage fifteen Pikes and Peeces 40 horse but lost sixteen horse of his owne in the fight the titular Earle was quite broken and stole backe into Munster and lived as a Wood Kerne with three or foure in his company and once againe being like to be surprized he ran away in such hast that he left his shooes behind him The Lord Deputy wasted and gathered in all the corne so that the yeere following the Rebels were pinched and in Munster all subdued or submitted so that 400 of that Province received their pardons under the great Seal And all being quiet hee did question the Corporate Towns that were so ready to assist the Rebels as being aiders and abetters of the rebellion for their owne private gaine And so he sent 1000 of the Munster List to the Lord Deputy to be disposed at his pleasure The Lord Deputy and the Counsell wrote into England from Tredagh where he had layne from March 21 untill Aprill the sixteenth following to signifie that many chiefe rebels had submitted Chiefe of the Ferny and of the Fewes and the chiefe likewise of the Bienny And further sollicited for supplyes of mony victuals and munition to be sent some to Dublin but most to Galloway for the forces to plant Ballishannon An establishment signed by the Queen March 31 1601 which was according to the former the charge 255773l besides the charge of munition of levying horse and foot for re-inforcing the Army with many like charges About April divers Rebels in the North submit and discover many secrets to our Captaine concerning the Spanish Invasion this yeare Oghy Ohanlon submitted at Tredagh and subscribed to divers Articles The Garrison at Liffer did spoyle the rebels and tooke 300 Cows The Lord Deputy kept Saint Georges Feast at Dublin April the twentieth inviting many of the submitted Rebels where he carryed himselfe with such wisdome and gravity that they did both admire him and feare him In May Munster Rebels had their pardons granted them upon the intercession of the Lord President A list out of five English Shires and Irish Submitties 207 horse 374 Archers as likewise arising out of the Irish Lords and their Captains horse 128 Kerne 361. And now preparation is made for the Summer service whence to take forces for the field To be drawne out of Munster to Connagh a thousand foot fifty horse And in Connagh already 1150 foot horse 74. Thus to be disposed in Connagh at Galloway and Athlone 350 foot At the Abbey of Boyle in Connagh under the command of the Earle of Clanrichard a thousand foot 62 horse To leave in Lemster side of the Shannon at the Annaly to further the plantation of Balishannan eight hundred foot horse twelve These all lying to infest the Rebels or to hinder their joyning together or to hinder Northerne forces from comming into Lemster And to hinder Tyrones gathering in the corn May the two and twentieth his Lordship parts from Dublin and wrote into England for six thousand souldiers ready if so be any forreigne aide should come and to have a Magazine at Limrick many pardoned in the County of Corke And about the eight of June his Lordship came neere the Pace of Moyry where hee purposed to build a Fort to secure that Pace Now againe hee sollicits his former demands by Letters into England And so he marched by Dundalke to Lecagh comming suddenly on them he took much booty and many submitted to his Lordship in this passage from thence he went to Mount Norris and so hee intended to plant a Garrison at Armagh and so forth hee went to Blackwater to see that way to that Fort where the Marshall Bagnal had his defeat The foure and twentieth hee marched two miles short
peny sterling In Corke by Patent to Knights and Esquires and to their heires were granted 88037 Acres with Rents five hundred and twelve pounds seven shillings and six peace half pâ—ny sterling In Waterford and Tipperary 22910 Acres with Rents three hundred and three pounds three pence sterling But these Undertakers having got so large a proportion of Lands and so little care to plant them with English Colonies and build and fortifie them with Castles as by Patent they were tied but for private ends without any regard to the publick good or her Majesties bounty sold them either to Papists or to Irish ill affected unto the English which was a great prejudice to the State of that Kingdom and the seeds of the ensuing Rebellion raised by Tyrone Concerning which I will briefly shew unto the Reader such collections as I have gathered from divers Authors COncerning the name and title of O Neale it is in so much esteeme that even those honourable titles of Earles Marquesses Dukes and Princes are despised in regard of that and in such reverent regard among the Irish that it is thought hee deserves the greatest curse in the world to fall upon him that shall dare to lay violent hands upon him nor have any loyall subjects a more dreadfull awe to violate the person of their sacred Prince then these people have to touch their great O Neale So that two thousand pound being offered by Proclamation to any that should betray him in his vast Campe prevailed nothing at all although hee were proclaymed Traitour and held guilty of that crime by Act of Parliament to take that name upon him Neere Tâ—llogh Oge there was a stone Chaire placed in the open field wherein he sate down that was created then we whose office it was took an old shooe and cast it over his head proclayming him O Neale Henry O Neale and Câ—nmâ—re matching into the Family of the Earles of Kildare by this their good fortune grew so insolent and proud that by their cruell tyranny they grew intolerable Câ—n Batto because lame succeeded his father in the dignity of O Neale and cursed his posterity if any of them should learne English sow corne or build houses to entertain the English This mans greatnesse grew in suspition with Henry the eighth having been a party in the former Rebellion of the Earle of Kildare which hee perceiving went into England renounced the title of O Neale and surrendred his Lands unto the King Which not long after was regranted unto him by Henry the eighth to hold in fee together with the title of the Earl of Tyrone to him and to Matthew his reputed sonne and to the heires of their bodies lawfully begotten At which time also Matthew was created Baron of Dungannon This Matthew till hee was fifteene yeeres of age was reputed the sonne of a blacksmith of Dundalke whose Wife Con had formerly kept and she at her death gave him unto the said Con as being his sonne which hee did accept and appointed him to be Lord of Dungannon but hee was murthered in his fathers life time by Shant that is John O Neale the lawfull heire of Con but Matthew the base sonne left Brian who was murthered by O Donell at the instance of Shan And Hugh and Cormack who by the means and help of the English were preserved yet both proved Rebels Shan being barbarous and bloudy did â—ave and rage in a cruell manner over the Lords and people of Vlster Began to dispute that his father had no power to surrender to Henry the Eighth being but a termer that Mattheâ— was base borne that himselfe was O Neale and had Sovereigne power and authority over the Lords of Vlster Who taking armes overthrew O Really and took Callogh O Donnell Lord of Tir Conell cast him and his children into prison took his wife from him and bore himselfe as absolute King of Vlster But hee was soone quelled by the forces of the Earle of Sussex the then Lord Deputy and by perswasion of the Earle of Kildare went into England and made great submission to Queen Elizabeth and promising allegiance was received courteously And so returning conformed himselfe awhile in civill manner and did some good service against the Scots killed their Leader and drove them out of Vlster howbeit hee suddenly fell to his old byas and played the Tyrant over the Lords of Vlster who craved aid of the Lord Deputy to suppresse him but he grew the more outragious and with fire and sword drave Mac Guir Lord of Fermanagh out of his Country set fire on the Metropolitan Church of Armagh and laid siege to Dundalke but had the repulse by the Garrison and assistance of the Major But Sir Henry Sidney Lord Deputy taking the field with some forces sent Edw. Raldalph a brave Souldier to the North side of Ireland where at Derry at Coghfoyle in a pitchfield though hee lost his life yet gave the rebell such an overthrow that he was never able to appeare any more abroad so that hee was minded to have submitted with a halter about his neck to the Deputy but by the perswasion of his Secretary hee tried the friendship of the Scots who received him kindly but not long after slue him So that presently after Shan by a Parliament at Dublin was attainted of high Treason and all that hee had fell to the Queen Then Turlogh Linnogh took the title off O Neal for feare of the children of Shan and Matthew the bastard but being aged was quiet and lived peaceably Now Hugh son of the base son Matthew lived somtime in Ireland but much in the Court of England commonly called Baron of Dungannon who had served with a troop of horse under the Queen against the Lord of Desmond and behaved himselfe so valiantly that hee had given him a yeerly pension off a hundred marks He was a man of mean stature but of a strange body able to endure labours watching hunger and cold being industrious and active valiant affable and apt to manage great affaires and of a hgh dissembling subtile and profound wit He put up a Petition to the Parliament in Ireland that he might enjoy the inheritance of his Grandfather Con and his father granted to be Earles of Tirone which by the help of Sir John Perrot Lord Deputy was procured of the Queen And so hee handled the matter as well knowing the humour of the Court of England that through the Queenes mediation he got Turlogh Linnogh to surrender his government upon some conditions After whose death he usurped the title of O Neale which was capitall yet coloured it over with a pretence that it was only to hinder others In the yeer 1588 when that great Armado of Spaine was scattered by the English and many of the ships cast away on the Irish coast it is thought that this Hugh lodging and entertaining many of them was by them seduced and perswaded to Rebellion And going into England he was there