met him in Connaught with Mac Morris Oswilliuan More the Knight of Kerry and certaine Septs of the Galloglasses who accompanied him to Limbrick where there came vnto him all the principall persons of that Prouince sauing the chiefe of the County of Corke as the Lords Barry and Roche Sir Owen-Mac-Carthie and others who did accompany their Sheriffe Sir William Stanley prouided to entertaine him and present themselues vpon the Confines of their owne County but were preuented by the Northerne newes already mentioned the Deputy hauing changed his purpose of visiting those parts Malachias Amalone a Fryar conuerted In this passage thorow Connaught Malachias Amalone brother to Mac William Eughter who had long beene a Fryar was brought vnto him and by him with priuate consultation and dispute made to vnderstand his errours Hee publiquely and before a great Assembly did renounce the Pope and Romish Religion gaue ouer his order and habit and made his Recantation by professing himselfe a Protestant and conformable to the Religion established in her Maiesties Dominions With these courses of Prouidence Iustice ending of Controuersies and taking security for the preseruation of future Peace the people generally seemed to be well pleased and satisfied but in nothing more then with the correction of the Sheriffes corruptions and limiting them to a small number of followers who had formerly vsed with Multitudes to trauaile and Cesse vnder colour of Seruice to the grieuous oppression of the Country so as mixing the peoples case from exaction with their reformation they gladly yeelded to the hardest conditions that colde bee desired to keepe them in obedience and due subiection These parts being left to the care of the Iustices and other selected Commissioners The Deputy retired with as much celerity as hee could towards Dublin and in his way as hee passed through Leix hee tooke Pledges of Fiaugh Order taken with the heads of Lemster for the certainty of their obedience Mac Hugh the Fierbrand of the Mountaines betweene Dublin and Wexford which were his Sonne and Vncle and for the rest of his Sept the Obyms and O-Tooles Sir Henry Harrington the Captaine and Commaunder of that Country was appointed to receiue the liâ—e The two brethren of the Oconnors who vsed to be followed with great troupes of Sauaging and idle people doing and threatning mischiefe to the Queene and Kings Counties and the parts adioyning submitted themselues there to the Deputy and were by him reduced to a more orderly course by putting away their idle men and bringing their Sept and followers into a smaller proportion according to their quality After the death of Iames More alias Meigh the Mores who challenge dominion in Lâ—ix were deuide into two or three Septs them the Deputy caused to render Pledges for their Loyalties as the Oconnors had done The Canaâ—aghs not being ready with their Pledges who are the bordering busie men of the Counties of Wexford Catherlogh and Kildare were respited to performe the same to Sir Henry Wallop Sir Nicholas Walsh and other Commissioners appointed for the suruaying the Forts of Mary Burgh and Philips Towne The Forts of Mary-Burgh and Philips Towne built by the Earle of Sussex Philips Towne and the Kings County was assigned to the commaund of Sir George Bourgier and Mary Burgh with the Queenes County to Captaine Warham St. Leger which Forts were built and Counties so named in Queene Maries time by the Earle of Sussex then Lieutenant of Ireland before begun by Edward Bollingham being otherwise called Leix and Ophaly these being the first Counties that The King and Queens Counties diuided by the Earle of Sussex had beene in this Kingdome since King Iohns Reigne at what time the twelue first Shires were established which enlarging of the English Plantation was a Seruice of very great moment those two Irish Septs of Mores and Oconnors possessing these two Countries being the most powerfull Rebels of Lemster at that time and by this good Earle and his Predecessour happily brought vnder The Orealies as wel Sir Iohn as Philip being then in controuersie were thence suÌ„moned by the Lord Deputy to repaire to him at Dublin which shortly after they performed and submitted their cause to his order who appeased their controuersie by setling an indifferent course betweene them to both their lykings Hauing secured all the Westerne parts in the manner as is declared which was certified vnto England by those of the Priuie Councell that attended him in this iourney he repaired to Dublin vpon the 9. day of August hauing bin absent a moneth wanting two daies where he remained sixteene dayes to make prouision of conuenient power and meanes for his Northerne iourney for to resist the Inuasion of the Scottish Ilanders whereof his intelligence did dayly encrease and to suppresse the rebellious purpose of the Vlster Confederates making the greater hast to keepe them from vniting His force which hee could on such a suddaine make was the Earle of Ormond and his Rising out The Earle of Thomond and his The Army for the North. From Mounster the Lord Barrys his Rising out sent by his brother The Lord Roche and Fitz Gibon called the white Knight with theirs The rising out of the County of Kildare The Lord of Trimelstowne with the rising out of Meathe The Vice-Count Gormâ—nstowne and the Lord of Heathe with other rising out of the English Pale being such of the olde English discent as were tyed by their tenures and custome of Seruice to leauy certaine Horse and Foote called Risings out to attend the Deputy or chiefe Gouernour for a time without the Princes charge in all Seruices of importance when hee went himselfe in person To these were added ten English Companies of Foote of one hundred in each Company vnder the Command 1 Sir Henry Wallops Company commanded by his Lieutenant 2 Captaine Rees ap Hugh the Prouost Marshall 3 Captaine Thomas Lea. 4 Captaine Bethell 5 Captaine Randal Brewerton 6 Captaine Merryman 7 Captaine Mince 8 Captaine Parker 9 Captaine Collum 10 Captaine Bangor These Companies Risings out and some halfe Companies of Kerne brought by particular Irish Lords being ready The Deputy accompanied with the afore-named Lords Generall Norreys Lord President of Moâ—nster Sir Nicholas Bagnall then Marshall of Ireland Captaine Iaques Wingfield then Master of the Ordnance Sir George Bourchier Sir William Stanley Mr. Thomas Norreys Sir Henry Harrington all Gouernours Commanders and most of them ancient Captaines well experienced with him likewise went Sir Robert Dillon chief Iustice of the Common Pleas Sir Lucas Dillon chiefe Baron of the Exchequer Sir Nicholas White Master of the Rolls Master Ieffrey Fenton Secretary of the State Master Henry Bagnall Sir Edward Denny Sir Iohn Tyrrell of Farrtallaugh Master Dudleigh Bagnall Sir Henry Cooley Sir Thomas More Sir Anthony Brabauson Warham Saint Leger Henry Warren and William Warren his brother set-forwards from Dublin the fiue and twenty day of August and came to the Newry the 29. thereof where
vnder the pen of a more able hand one that had taken much paines in that Subiect onely hauing omittted Sir Iohn Perrots time for some particular reasons which must needes blemish my worke because not so substantiall I abruptly therefore brake off with such an excuse as to him belonged who was the motiue of my vndertaking And if this thus much come in Print I pray you know it to be his will onely But if this weake labour be not misliked I will proceede further as time shall spare me leasure To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie Sir Iohn Perrots Opinion for the suppressing of Rebellion and the well Gouerning of Ireland written by him vpon the Queenes commandement in the time of the Earle of Desmonds and the Lord of Baltinglasses Rebellion 1582. I Haue found the charge that your Maiestie committed vnto mee for the setting downe of mine opinion how your Realme of Ireland might with the least charge be reclaimed from Barbarisme to a godly Gouernment somewhat difficult by reason of mine owne insufficiency many wayes for so weighty a cause Neuerthelesse entring into consideration first of your Maiesties most godly and Princely care in this behalfe and next of my most bounden duty to your Maiesty I haue beene emboldned to set downe what I obserued were the causes of the disorders of the Land whilst I had some peece of Gouernment in it and what I then thought and now doe thinke may bee some meanes to reforme the same most humbly referring both my selfe and this my simple discourse to your Maiesties and Councels grauer deeper consideration and as humbly crauing pardon if in seeking to discharge my duty truly and plainely I touch any thing that may seeme offensiue It is most apparant that the regard your Maiestie hath had to God and his will in all your Princely proceedings hath so wonderfully blessed your Estate that as wee your faithfull Subiects doe loue and honour you so all forraigne Nations doe admire and reuerence you for it A cause for vs to thank God most hartily and a patterne for all Princes to immitate most diligently Wee therefore to you and you to God are to giue all the honour and glory It is also apparant what continuall care you haue had of that your Realme of Ireland The great and almost insupportable charges that you haue sustained to doe it good doth well witnesse the same For so great a masse of Treasure haue you already imployed to that end that no Prince in the world except your Maiestie who hath bin moued with conscience of your people and feare of God only would in reason or good pollicy giue so much for the purchase of such an other Land to bee enioyed in peaceable possession And yet notwithstanding all that your Maiesties care and cost that way hath not hitherto yeelded that fruit that your Maiesty doth desire For the State of that Country hath growne dayly from worse to worse and from dangerous tâ— most dangerous Many men doe alledge causes hereof But next to the want of the true knowledge of God and of the due course of Iustice to giue euery man a peaceable propriety of that which is his owne I take vnder correction that the smoothing vp of all former Rebellions by Pardons and Protections hath beene the misery and cause of most of this mischiefe For if it were not too bitter a rehearsall it were no hard matter to make it appeare how one Rebellion during your Maiesties Raigne hath hatcht another and how againe of all them this last more dangerous then they all hath taken this strong rooting with forraigne combination Leauing this third cause a while I craue pardon to say a little of the two former principall causes want of Religion and Lawe It is a lamentable thing to behold how generally in that Realme they are so farre of not onely from true but also in effect from any knowledge at all of God thaâ— Saint Patrick is more familiar and of better credite with them then Christ Iesus our Sauiour How can a people so estranged from God and their duty to him haue any grace to know their lawfull Prince and their duty to her The like is to be said of the Lawes from which they flye as from the yoke of bondage and not desire to be tyed by it as by the linke of humane Society as they ought to be The reformation must therefore begin at God His will and word must be duly planted and Idolatry extirped Next Law must be established and lycentious customes abrogated The meanes to effect both is now most fitly offered by the Rebellion now a foore So as a man that should giue his opinion for the reformation of Ireâ—and might conclude all circumstances with this one short resolution Correct this Rebellion throughly and reforme Ireland presently I must therefore craue pardon to say a little more concerning this Rebellion before I meddle with other particularities of reformation There be three strong reasons to moue your Maiesty to correct this Rebellion with all earnest seuerity not allowing pardon or protection to be giuen to any man but vpon speciall and vrgent great causes The first reason is The charge that God hath committed to your Maiesty ouer that people to see the good maintained or at the least defended and the bad suppressed or at the least repressed Then the account that God will require for the innocent blood that hath beene there cruelly spilt by Traytors and for the miserable oppression of the better sort of your Maiesties Subiects who haue beene there burned rauished robbed and spoyled the cry whereof is now shrill in Gods eare for vengeance against these cruell Rebels and disordered dealers The second reason is a present vrging necessity which may not be neglected but with dangerous errour in pollicy of Gouernement For remit this Rebellion and yeeld wholly and for euer the Lamb to the Wolfe and the Subiect to the Traytor who will so keepe him vnder that hee shall neither will nor dare euer hereafter to oppose himselfe on your Maiesties behalfe or Seruice The third reason is commodity For besides that all rules and orders for reformation may thereupon be the more readily and lesse chargeably put in execution there will excheate to your Maiesty by due course of Iustice the better halfe of that Land whereof what great â—…ue may in short time accrew to your Maiestie ouer and aboue what may be imployed to reward and strengthen those that are dutifully disposed shall in part appeare in place where the commodities of Ireland shall purposely be spoken of Thus it appeareth that the seuere correction of this Rebellion is the first and soundest step of reformation and that the same is grounded vpon duty to God necessity pollicy and commodity all which points would yeeld a larger discourse if that it were either my purpose or needfull to your Maiesty who knoweth and vnderstandeth all Least some might draw this mine opinion of a seuere
opinions what seruice were fit to bee first attempted and where Some in Vlster against the Scots Some in Connaught against the Burks Some in Mounster against Desmond and some in Leynster against Baltinglass and each haue their reason It were not good to neglect any of them but presently at least to front euery of them The choyse therefore where to begin would be left at large at the Deputies discretion to doe therin as he seeth cause Neuerthelesse aboue all the rest that in Leynster which aptly may bee called an intestin mischiefe would be in mine opinion first dealt withall as well for the indignity of the matter as also for the suppression of the Birnes Tooles and Cauenaghes which as now to Baltinglass haue and euer will be ready Rebellion to the Omoores Oconers and all others For vntill they be eyther extirped or throughly brought vnder by fortifications vpon their fastnesses Dublin Kildare Westmeth the Kings Queenes Counties cannot be cleare either of theirs the Omoores and Oconors incursions spoyles or of doubt of the Magoghigans Omoloyes other stirring Irish borderers But they being suppressed the Omoores Oconors lose all their chiefe strength and refuge and the residue with either the Sword or the Law will be easily enough kept vnder So as then the Pale may without feare or danger attend your Maiesties other Seruice with their best ayde That being happily as it willw i th Gods fauour be soone at chieued then is your Deputy to proceede against the rest and still as hee goeth to make great paces throughout all their Woods and fatnesses and small fortifications vpon euery their streight and strength after the example of your Maiesties most Noble Progenitors in subduing of Wales And whilst this is in doing your Maiestie had neede to haue not onely part of your Nauy to lye on the Coast to answere forraign attempts if there be cause and to keep the Rebels from starting ouer Sea But also small Vessels to lye vpon the Scots to impeach their Inuasions The Rebellion being repressed and your Maiesty hauing shewed mercy to those that you shall see cause to bestowe it well vpon then must the fruits of peaceable Gouernement be made to appeare To that end it shall be requisite to call a Parliament and by Authority thereof not onely to reuiue all former olde Statutes that shall be consonant to a reformed Gouernment but also to Enact new for the establishing of the Articles ensuing and such other as vpon aduice shall be thought meete 1. First for as much as the only way for true obedience to the Prince groweth by true knowledge of God it shal be requisite that two Vniuersities where the same may bee truly taught be erected with as conuenient speede as may be The fittest places for them will be at Lymbrick for the south part and Arnagh for the North The meanes to doe it may bee partly by some of the Lands that shall excheat to your Maiesty by this Rebellion and partly by imposition of workes labours carriages and money as Fines vpon those that shall bee thought fit to be pardoned 2 Item to the end it may appeare that the reformation tendeth to a lawfull Gouernement it shall bee meete that a Collection bee made of the Lawes already in force and a publique denuntiation made by Proclamation for the putting of them in present Execution especially the Lawes of King Kogish 3 Item the Earle of Ormond is to be compounded withall for his liberties of Tibredary so as your Maiesties Lawes onely ruling there my Lord neuerthelesse to haue the Excheats as by the ordinance of Wales the Lords Marchers haue there As for the Earle of Desmond his liberties of County Pallantine in Kerry there needeth no composition with him he being in Rebellion 4 Item that all Ireland bee reduced into Manours so as hauing Courts Barons Leetes and Lawdayes kept orderly vpon them the people may haue Iustice for meane actions neere home 5 Item that all Cesse cuttings and Irish exactions as Bonnaght Coyne and Liuory Fowey Soren Black rents and such like bee cleane abollished And that in lieu thereof a certaine Annuall rent bee rated vpon euery Plow Land to the vse of the Lord by composition tripartity indented to be made betwixt your Maiestie the Lord and his Free-holder by the Lord Deputy Lord Presidents or other Commissioners by them authorized reseruing besides for your Maiesty according to the Statutes made for that purpose 13 shillings foure pence vpon euery Plow land with prouiso that if the Lord doe breake the composition or take againe any of the said exactions then hee to forfeit the inheritance of those Lands And that by that tripartity Indenture both the Lord and the Freeholder bee bound to let his demeanes or any other Land that he shall demise to the Tennant otherwise called Churle at a reasonable rent certaine for terme of 21 yeares at least Thus the Freeholder and the Tennant being at a certainty and rid of the vncertaine spoyle and spending of the Lord and feeling the ease and commodity thereof will withstand the vnlawfull attempts of the Lord and be ready with his body and goods against him if neede bee at the deuotion of the State that shall be meanes thus to enrich and better his estate 6 Item no Lord or Gentlemen for any respect or colour of Seruice be admitted to put vpon his Lordship or Signory any Galloglagh Kerne or Shot or to grant them any Kenelagh Follow Bonaghbeg or Bonaghburr vpon paine offellony Neuerthelesse vpon any great necessity the Lord Deputy or Lords Presidents shall put in any Galloglagh Kerne or Shot and those to be called and reputed your Maiesties Galloglagh Kerne or Shot 7 Item that all Brehons Carraghes Bardes and Rymers that infect the people Friars Monkes Iesuites Pardoners Nunns and such like that openly seeke the maintenance of Papacy a Traytrous kinde of people the Bellowes to blow the coales of all mischiefe and Rebellion and fit spies of Antichrist whose Kingdome they greedily expect to bee restored be executed by Marshall Law and their fauourers and maintainers by due course of Law to be tryed and executed as in cases of Treason 8 Item if your Maiesty in respect of pollicie or otherwise doe not thinke it good vtterly to destroy the Irish Scots that doe continually inuade your good Subiects and ayde the Rebellious against your Highnesse That it were well your Maiesty did graunt to the Earle of Arguile an yearely Pention for a time to the end he should restraine them from comming euer into England 9 Item that the English Horsemen Footmen the Galloglaghes Kerne and Irish Shot bee placed in the seuerall Prouinces of the Realme as the seruice and the necessity of the place shall require And that of the Lands in your Maiesties disposition by Excheat or otherwise as soone as conuensently may bee some portions bee allotted to them to dwell vpon and manure at a certaine reasonable rate And
yearely as the commodity of their Lands encreaseth the wages to abate and so at length cleane to extinguish 10 Item to the end the Ports in Ireland especially of Mounster may be inhabited and fortified against forraigne attempts it shall bee well your Maiesty doe not onely strengthen the Priuiledges already graunted but also graunt new 11 Item that Merchants in generall be prohibited vpon paine of death to sell Powder or any kinde of Warlike Munition to any of the Irish 12 Item that honest and skilfull men be taken out of euery Court of Record here and placed there for the setling of the due course of the Lawes And for their better encouragement to doe well that in respect of their honest trauels they be promised preferments of Offices in the Courts here as any doe fall fit for them 13 Item that the Glybb and all Irish habite of men and women be presently abollished and that Orders be set downe for enlarging the English tongue and extinguishing the Irish in as short a time as conueniently may be 14 Item that the factions of Butler and Geraldine with the titles of Ahmabo and Crâ—ghmabo be taken away 15 Finally to the end your Maiesties State be more followed and depended vpon then hitherto it hath beene and the Lords of the Counties lesse reseruing to them the honour and reputation due to their places as the Noble men here haue I thinke it very necessary that a suruay be taken of all their Lands and that your Maiesty by good aduice shall take such a third part thereof into your hands as shall lye fittest for the furtherance of your Seruice Giuing them of improoued Lands in England by way of exchange a valuable recompence So shall your Maiesties followers encrease and theirs diminish to the great assurance of your State there Besides that by that meanes your Highnes shall haue alwayes A CONTINVATION of the History of IRELAND vnto this time 1626 whereof this is the first Booke beginning 1584. and ending 1588. the rest shall follow Queene Elizabeths prosperous and peaceable gouernment WHen Queene Elizabeth the mirrour of women and most famous of Princes had to the wonder of the world and her owne euer flourishing fame gouerned these her Kingdoms of England and Ireland 1584 for the space of almost sixe and twenty yeares and did now plainely finde that the Romish and Spanish practises those ambitious States affecting vniuersall Supremacie the one in ouer ruling Religion the other in coueting absolute Monarchy had taken holde of the reuolting disposition nature of the Irish now wearier of the English yoke of obedience then euer in respect of their contrariety in Religion which through their wildnesse and barbarisme they would not haue beene The Romane Locusts and especially Sanders incendiaries of Rebellion so sensible of but by the stirring vp of the Romane Locusts the instruments of strife bloud and dissention as late manifestation was made in the fruit of that wicked Priest and Traytor Doctor Sanders his worke who not onely drew in the inuading Popish-Spanish forces one of those States aucthorising the other The Popish-Spanish forces defeated by the Lord Gray then Deputy supporting into Mounster where at Smerwick they were defeated by her Maiesties forces vnder the commaund of the right worthy and religious Deputy the Lord Gray but had likewise incited the Lords of Desmond and Baltinglasse with many their confederates to an insurrection not without suspition of the Earle of Kildares conniuencie therein which fire being well quenched by the wisedome The too specdy recalling of the Lord Gray hindred the vtter extinguishing of Desmonds insurrection and valour of that noble Gouernour but not vtterly extinct he being too speedily reuoked thence by the meanes of his enemies at Court enuying his vertues and malicing his successe And the sword committed vnto two Iustices who as in bodies and qualities so varied they indispositions and affection Way was giuen by neglect the Handmayde of diuision to the reuiuing those sparkes which lay hid and couered in the embers of the Iesuites forge which her Maiestic discerning repented no doubt the calling away of the former Deputie but like a great minded Prince vnwilling to confesse errour or to shew the power of such as had preuailed with her in this particular called her selfe home to a new election of such a Gouernour as was likely to answere the necessity of her seruice and to rule that Kingdome to the good and quiet of her people wherein though her happinesse was such as to haue plenty of worthy seruants Regis ad exemplum c. yet most worthily the lot of Sir Iohn Perrott elected Lord Deputy of Ireland her iudgement fell at this time vpon Sir Iohn Perrot a Gentleman discended of an auncient and Noble family and that illustrated by his owne vertue which being supported with a faire Patrimony the effectuall grace of Ancient Nobility gaue glory to his minde His profession being a Souldier for as his meanes bestowed grace vpon the profession so the profession returned the more honour to his vndertaking free hazard being indeede the high path to honour especially when it is guided by a transcendent iudgement which hee had formerly manifested by diuers imployments In her Maiesties Nauie hee had not long before Sir Iohn Perrotts imployment against Stukely the commaund of sixe of her Shipps to encounter Stukeley expected with the Papall banner to haue inuaded Ireland Hee was the Sir Iohn Perrott the first Praesident of Mounster first Lord President of the Prouince of Mounster made by the aduice of Sir Henry Sidney While he was Deputy of Ireland wherein hee had gouerned with good successe to her Maiesties Seruice and such notice had she taken of his iudgement and experience in that Kingdome as shee required his opinion in writing Sir Iohn Perrotts opinion for reformation of Ireland applauded by the Queene and Councell for reformation of errours and establishing a perfection in the gouernment there which he performed to her good liking and the applause of her Councell This iudicious and exact discourse I haue added for the satisfaction of the Reader to my Preface These merrits induced that prouident Prince to this his Election So as commission Sir Iohn Perrots taking of the sword was giuen and the sword deliuered him in Christes Church in Dublin on the 26. of Iune anno 1584. by the afore mentioned Iustices at which time peraduenture in imitation of the ancient Romane Gouernours who were euer accustomed at their Election into Sir Iohn Perrots speech when he receiued the sword publique Office to make Orations to the people hee made a briefe speech more plaine and pithy then glorious or eloquent the words being to this effect That since it had pleased God and her Maiestie to commit to him that great gouernment how weake so euer hee were to vndergoe so heauy a weight yet hee would doe his best endeuour to distribute
State opened and coppied by a Captaine trusted with the conueyance thereof and by him certified to the Traytor Tyrone but in the way intercepted by the Marshal Sir Henry Bagnall The originall of these Cyphers are yet to bee seene with the worthy Sonne of that most worthy Father Sir Henry Wallop of whom since my heart vpon good knowledge of him guides my Pen I craue pardon for digressing from my matter now in hand to speake a word of him He was of an auncient family and an Inheritour of a faire fortune which he managed with so much prouidence as it being seconded by a well knowne wisedome hee was Elected to this place of Vice-Treasurer and Treasurer at Warres in Ireland which as I haue often credibly heard he was vnwilling to accept of not because the place was in the Market at a price to be had according to the Custome of France but freely disposed as all Offices were by that glorious Queene who well vnderstood that he which buyes deare must sell at the same rate by which meanes the poore Subiect whose weale lay next her heart must suffer inconuenience but out of feare that treasure which corrupts most men might doe no lesse to him This place hee discharged many yeares with so cleane hands and so vpright a heart as hee added not to his fortune any matter of moment but at his death was found vpon an euen ground neither in debt to the Queene nor to be charged with any gratuity from Officer Captaine or other in that Kingdome and carried this report to his graue that neuer Treasurer so wise and prouident enioyed so long and reaped so little benefit by so beneficiall a place and dyed without the Taynt of corruption either in that Office or any other which hee held by the fauour of the State in that Kingdome The Lord Deputy hauing performed this with many other things of importance set forwards on his iourney into Connaught where hee dealt with the chiefe Lords to change their custome of strife and controuersie at this time frequent into amity and friendship Charity breeding Piety and both establishing ciuility as the Earles of Thomond and Clanrichard the Lord Bremigham the Burghs of Euter Connaught the Okelleis Oconnor Roe Oconnor Don Oconnor Sligo Mac-William Eughter Murtho-ne-doe-Oflarty The Oneales Mac Trenor Mac Mahond Mac Enispoc both the Mac Nemurroes the two Mac Mahones and all the Chiefes of Connaught and Thomond that both they and the meaner Subiect might be preserued in peace without priuate wrongs for assurance of their loyalties and the readier payment of their compositions He put to death Donnogh Beg Obryan Donnogh-Beg-Obryan put to death a bioudy murtherer and spoyler of the good Subiect with sixe of his accomplices This naughty person shewed as much resolution in suffering death as before he had manifested cruelly in his bloudy actions which did argue the goodnesse of the seruice in cutting him so timely off for he that wants remorce of conscience at the time of his death is in his soule delighted in doing mischiefe The practise of Surleboys inuading Vlster discouered Hee passed on to Limbrick in the Prouince of Mounster where hee receiued intelligence from the Baron of Donganon Sir Nicholas Bagnall the Marshall Captaine Mince then lying in Odonnells Country and others of the approach of a Thousand Scottish Islanders called Redshankes being of the Septs or Families of the Cambiles Macconnells and Macgalanes drawne to inuade Vlster by Surleboys one of that Nation who had vsurped and by power and strong hand possessed himselfe of the Macguilies and other mens Lands in Vlster called the Glimes and the Routes meaning to hold that by force which hee had gotten without right by violence fraud and iniurie The Deputy at the same time receiued priuate notice of a Messenger sent from the Irish of Vlster to stirre vp the Lords and Chiefes of Mounster and Connaught to ioyne with them in Rebellion for whom he caused wayte to be Tirlogh Leynaghs fosterer taken layde and had him apprehended and brought to himselfe who vpon examination after some deniall confessed that hee was Tirlogh Leynagh then called Oneales fosterer and by him imployed to procure those people to ioyne in Rebellion with him and his Accomplices according to a former combination made before his Lordshippes arriuall in that Kingdome when it was destitute of an vnderstanding Commander or such a Garrison of Souldiers as was fit to answere such an occasion hereby expressing the condition of that people to watch all opportunity to deliuer themselues from the yoake of the English gouernment and hee confessed withall that now hauing moued the Lord Fitzmorrice and some other Lords of Mounster to enter into The opinion of the Deputies Iustice kept the Lord Fitzmorrice and others frō Rebellion the promised Insurrection hee was answered by them that since Sir Iohn Perrot who all that Country knew and esteemed to be a iust man was arriued and made Deputy none of them would stirre so long as hee and the Earle of Ormonde continued in that Kingdome so as the cause which makes the English gouernment heauy to that people plainely appeares to be the corruption of our Gouernours else had not Sir Iohn Perrot whose sincerity was knowne to them had more power to containe them in obedience then another of his Country and quality should haue had in the processe of this Story it will likewise appeare that Oneale himselfe was wonn to loyalty and a peaceable subiection merely by the Iustice of this Deputy when hee came once to be knowne amongst them of the North. Neuerthelesse the newes of the Preparation in Vlster The Deputies returne to preuent the Ilanders and the danger of a discent of the Scottish Islanders there being by the Deputy wel weighed broke off his farther proceedings in that Prouince and called him backe to the preuention of the same leauing this Prouince secured by taking Pledges of all suspected persons and constituting in each Country trusty and able Gouernours to keepe the people in obedience if any stirre should happen in his absence taking the President of Mounster who was desirous to accompany him along with him to the Northerne Expedition and appointing such as he suspected to attend him to Dublin ordaining in his absence the County of Corke to be gouerned by the Iustices Walshe and Miagh The Sheriffe Sir William Stanley the Lords Barry and Roche the County of Limbrick to the Prouost Marshall the County of Desmond to the Earle of Clancarthie Sir Owen Oswilliuan and Oswilliuan More The County of Kerry to the Sheriffe and the Lord Fitz-Morris with others whose pledges hee tooke with him The Liberty and County of Tipperary whose Iurisdiction was by Charter challenged to belong to the Earle of Ormonde he left as he found it to the auncient course of gouernment vnder Thomas the then Earle a man of singular wisedome and loyalty and by her Maiestie highly fauoured This Earle first
whom the Queene had not in her Dominions a more able and sufficient Gentleman and that did more neerely lay his actions to a good conscience so as he did nothing but by the warrant thereof and nothing did argue his duty to God and his Princemore then his The hard cause held against Sir Richara Bingham vniust fall notwithstanding his prime desert in that â—nhappy Kingdome by the deprauing and malicious courses of those Instruments that in time prosecuted the like against him as they did now against this Deputy of whom wee now treat till the light of his innocencie cleared him though too late from their aspersion brought him to a new further aduancement in that Kingdome though his great heart disdayning the iniustice was done him would not hold out long enough to prosecute the seruice which was in his power to performe but ere I come to relate this tragicall misdeede I must mention his vertuous actions by which hee got the hate of his worthlesse Aduersaries and must recommend the Earle of Clanrikard who being a most noble Gentleman and loyall Subiect was one of the principall in this Seruice After treaties succeeded Inquisitions to finde what quantity there was in each Barony The couenants between the Queene and the Lords of Connaught and who were found owners thereof Indentures were drawne betweene the Deputy in the behalfe of the Queene on the one part and the chiefe possessioners in the seuerall Precincts on the other expressing so many quarters and quantities of Land with the Rents thereon reserued and such other couenants as were therein contained In the County of Clare and Thomond the Earle of Clanrikard the Baron of Inseâ—â—uin the Bishop of Killalowe the Elect Bishoâ— of Kilfanorough with diuers Knights and chiefe Gentlemen subscribed to an Indenture of couenants for the perpetuall paying out of the nine Baronies of that County amounting 177 quarters Certaine Freedomes were granted to some speciall persons some quarters of Land to be exempted from this imposition In consideration whereof the Lords and Owners of those Lands did likewise couenaot with the Deputy that the names stiles and Titles of Captainship chiefly and all other Irish Authorities and Iurisdictions heretofore vsed by the Lords Chiefetaines and Gentlemen together with all elections and customary diuisions of Lands which had occasioned great strife and diuision amongst them should be thenceforth vtterly renounced extinct and abollished The like composition was made vpon the same conditions with the Lords spirituall and temporall The Chiefetaines Gentlemen and Freeholders in the County of Maio containing nine Baronies and 1448 quarters of Land euery quarter esteemed to be 120 Acres so that out of this 1448 quarters found in this County there being graunted so much to bee free as there remained 1200 quarters chargeable which amounted to sixe hundred pound sterling in that County There was also by the same composition and couenants to be maintained by the County for the Seruice of the Prince forty good able Horsemen furnished and two hundred Footemen well Armed at their owne costs and charges whensoeuer they should be called or commanded thereto by the Deputy or chiefe Gouernour of the Realme or by the chiefe Officer of the said Prouince and to finde fifteene good Horsemen and fifty Footemen well furnished in such sort as the Peeres and English Bishops ought to doe the same The like composition was made for the County of Sligo all other Counties Countries Baronies and Territories of this Prouince By the eighth of September 1585 the Commissioners had trauailed through the Okelleys Country all Thomond Clanrickard Eighter Connaught and the rest of the County of Galway which Mac William Eighter and the rest of his name which were of many branches besides the petty Lords and other of the second ranke in their Sir Nicholas White his letter to the Lord Deputy Countries So that as Sir Nicholas White certified to the Lord Deputy they conceiued hope to come home loaden with Pledges and leaue that Country vnloaden of many Macks and Oos translated by their owne assent vnto which their hands Seales were had to a better course and more certainty of liuing then hitherto they could afford themselues In the aduertisement of these affaires Sir Nicholas White did propound vnto the Deputy an ingenious Enigma or Ridle That all sorts were eased with their bearing and yet her Maiesties reuenue with the Liuings of the Lords encreased From the County of Mayo the Commissioners were to repasse to the County of Sligo and so homewards to the County of Roscoman The Commissioners doubtfull to meddle with Orurk With Orurkes Country called Letrim they were doubtfull how to meddle considering the condition of himselfe and his Country both vnciuill and vnruly In those places where they had dealt they began to erect Mannours to hold of her Maiestie besides the Compositions and Royalties reserued vnto the Crowne Vpon the returne of this Commission and the Indentures thereupon drawne as formerly mentioned It appeareth there were found in that Prouince 8169 quarters of Land whereof Freedomes were graunted to 2339 so then remained chargeable 6836 whereon there were reserued in yearely Rent to her Maiesty and the Crowne 3418 pound fiue shillings eight pence sterling with the Seruice of so many Horse and Foote as is already mentioned and hereafter set downe Horsemen for rising out within the Prouince of Connaught vpon their owne victuals 224 Horsemen for rising out within the same Prouince for forty dayes vpon their owne victuals 88 Footemen for rising out within the Prouince vpon their owne victuals 1054 Footemen for rising out of the Prouince for forty dayes vpon their owne victuals 332 The Tawnist was cut off in that Prouince Mac William Enghters Country being the lower Bourkes was deuided into fiue parts The Lords and their Tenants were agreed together for a certaine Rent in lieu of all exactions That Prouince was deuided into sixe Counties or Shieres where there were but three before for so I finde it in a note vnder the Deputies Sir Iohn Perrots owne hand yet by another painefull Author I see it mentioned that Sir Henry Sidney made the whole sixe Counties Clare Galway Sligo Mayo Roscomon and Letrim then but one as he had formerly done the County of Longford in Lemster being before called the Annaly or Oferralls Country but I suppose he is mistaken being deuided and The Counties of Connaught deuided by Sir Iohn Perrot not by Sir Henry Sidney peraduenture named by Sir Henry Sidney but perfected by Sir Iohn Perrot Iustices of Assize were ordained and Shriefes and Iustices of the Peace with other inferiour Officers were established in most parts of this Prouince This Seruice so auaileable to the State by cutting off the Inferiours depending onely vpon the Superiour was affected beyond the expectation of many who could not conceiue that Chiefetaines would easily condiscend to quit their cuttings Cosherias and other Irish exactions of so long
not the thing he aymed at but as is mentioned the barbarous Title of Oneale for Tyrone his ambition to be Oneale he hath beene oft heard to say I had rather be Oneale of Vlster then Philip of Spaine who in the Papists reckoning is the greatest Monarch of the world and as Tirlogh then the Tawnist Oneale grew in weakenesse and impotencie so this new created Earle did more and more aspire to sit in his roome within process of time he obtained so as the Queenes pollicy in making him Earle to out-countenance the Title of Oneale made him potent to gaine it and therby to proue the greatest firebrand that euer that Kingdome had Not long after the Composition of Connaught The Burks repenting their Composition before mentioned some of the Burkes with others of that Prouince better discerning the pollicy of the State then at first or at least taught to interpret it so by the perswasion of the Priests now fearing that their vsurped power ouer the people would bee diminished preferring power to doe mischiefe in after time before their present profit and plenty fell into counsell and consideration how they might vndoe the knot the State had almost tyed and proceeded to a promise of combination to the same effect whereof the vigilant Gouernour Sir Richard Bingham taking light aduertised the Deputy and from him receiued aduice not to prouoke the people by giuing them any iust occasion of offence but to try by all faire perswasions and pollitique meanes that they might be held in obedience and to perseuer in such courses of conformity as they had lately yeelded submitted themselues vnto for this purpose Commissioners are sent to heare their grieuances and to yeeld A second CoÌ„mission sent into Connaught to appease the Burks them right vpon their iust demaunds but this course indeede because it argued feare in the State made them holder in their practises The Commissioners were the Archbishop of Toome the Bishop of Meathe c. These Commissioners heard their complaints which proued most against the Gouernour and his vnder Officers somewhat they exhibited for their owne claimes alledging Interest They were offered right and perswaded to obedience which they promised but did not long performe for the matter of their vsurped and customary authority and superiority being of more value in sound and shewe then in substance did so ouer-possesse them as they not long after entred into a second conspiracy for the maintenance of that their lawlesse intrusion which being shaken by the coÌ„position they intended now to hold by force And for the better effecting this euill and Trayterous enterprise they perswaded the Clandonnells Ioyces and others that Sir Richard Bingham had already taken from them their auncient Liberties and was ready to doe the like vnto all others in that Prouince if it were not preuented and therefore entreated them to ioyne in action of Rebellion for their future Freedome Thus they began to assemble and to gather troopes amongst whom the sonnes of Edmond The Burks enter into an Insurrection Bourke of Castlebarry being many were Partisans and so entred into an insurrection This Edmond an olde man was one of the Competitors of the Mac William Shie His sonnes with Edmond Kettaugh Burke Richard Burest sonne vnto him called the Deuils â—ooke Meyler Oge Burke Walter Mac Dauid Barie Cayhir Mac Connell and others associating vnto them many idle persons their followers entred a Castle called Castle ne Kelly manned the same and kept it against the Queene with Thomas Roes Castle which after his decease was in the hands and possession of his brother Richard Burke About this time Mahone Obryan held a Castle called Clan Owen in Thomond against the State who was a dangerous and great practizer with forraigne power for the Inuasion in Sir Richard Bingham besieged Clan Owen Ireland This Castle the Gouernour Sir Richard besieged and after seauen dayes siege wonne it and slew Mahon Obryan The siege was all by water in Boates for it could not otherwise be attempted the Castle being seated farre within the Logh vpon a small Iland where Sir Richard going about to burne a Boate or two belonging to the Rebels that lay close to the wall of the Castle was enforced with suddaine rising of winde and foule weather which much fauoured the Rebell to leaue the attempt with the losse of one or two of his Boates and two or three of his Souldiers Himselfe such as were with him hardly escaping by the helpe of other Boates which came as they were appointed in time to second him The Boate which he lost the Rebels got in which they shipped themselues and fled into the Woods before hee could returne to giue them a new assault This Pile and another of Fardaraâ—gh Mac Donnells Sir Richard razed downe to the ground as held not fit to be kept by the English and dangerous to be in the hand of the Irish Richard Bourk hanged Richard Bourke called the Vsule of Ireland was at Castellne Kelly hanged by Marshall law Information being there giuen that hee was confederate with the Rebell and vnder pretext of dutifull obedience and visitation of the Gouernour intended to betray him and his company Some of the Burks sent to call the Scots The Burkes againe gather greater forces ioyned with their other confederates and the more to manifest their malice they murthered fifteene or sixteene of the Officers of Connaught and sent Edmond Kettaugh Burke with Iohn Iteleaga brother vnto Walter Kettaugh Burke to practise with the Scottish Ilanders to draw them thither to their ayde whereof the Deputy being aduertised sendeth directions to the Gouernour to raise what Forces hee could in the Prouince for the present promising to send him supplies with all possible The Deputy promiseth to come to the Gouernour speed and to come himselfe in person if the necessity of the Seruice so required but therein he reckoned without his Host for his Aduersaries A plot to restraine him finding his former successe to haue gained him great reputation whose encrease might make him too powerfull to be shaken by their plots had procured Letters of restraint to be sent out of England to prohibite him to doe any thing without the assent and approbation of the Councell The Gouernour with such Forces as were then in pay in the Prouince and some other ayde of the Country began vpon the 12 of Iuly 1586 to draw towards the County of Mayo and came to Ballincrobe the fourteenth of the same whereall the Gentlemen best affected in the Country met him as the Earle of Clanrikard the Lord Bremicham Sir Hubert Mac Dauie Teige Okelly with many others Thither came the Captaines Mostian Merryman and Mordant with their Companies sent by the Deputy to supply him Commissioners are likewise appointed to parley with the Burkes but could not preuaile The Burks proyed by the Gouernour their F rces ouerthrowne Whereupon the Gouernour prosecuted
complaints were moued by Macquire against Mac Mahone and the Earle of Tyrone for trespasses and supposed wrongs to be offered Sir Oconnor Macquire being behinde-hand for his Composition and charged with doing some things amisse was sent to by the Deputy and required to performe what was meete for him to doe or else to repaire vnto his prefence to answere these contempts which message was sent vnto him by Sir Henry Duke who appoints him a place of meeting Macquire writeth vnto the Lord Deputy and excuseth his comming to Sir Henry according to his appointment being hindered by sicknesse and the infirmity of the Gowte complayneth on the Earle of Tyrone and Mac Mahone desiring him not to beleeue complaints against him and offereth to double the pledges hee had put in if any doubt were had of his good disposition to the State Mac Mahone likewise exhibites his agreeuance against Tyrone for Ceasing in his Countrey and compelling him to maintaine Horsemen for him as if hee had beene tributary to the Earle which cause the Lord Deputy heard and determined freeing Mac Mahone from any such duty as the Earle demanded The rest being but complaints of which the Kingdome is neuer free and no practises to draw dangerous consequence to the State yet discouered were onely appeased by admonition Contention betweene Orurk and Sir Richard Bingham Besides these Sir Bryan Orurke the Lord of Letrim and Sir Richard Bingham the Gouernour of Connaught grewe into dislike one with the other the one being strickt in his Gouernement the other not willing to bee seuerely commaunded Sir Bryan wrote vnto the Deputy that hee had wrongs and indignities done him being often summoned by Sir Richard to goe before George Bingham his brother and Captaine Thomas woodhouse to answer as well complaints as to take directions which hee held to be a disparagement to him and to auoyde that inconueniencie was forced to forsake his Iland the place of his dwelling and to wander vpon the hills which he would not doe but for the care of performing his promise to be obedient vnto his Prince otherwise he said he would deale well enough with those men and meete Sir Richard and his brethren with the same measure they measured him therefore in as much as hee meant to doe nothing against her Maiestie he desireth they might be kept from him for he would not goe to them but in the Deputies presence whose Commandements hee would in all things else performe and craueth of him that peace might be kept with him in the Prouince of Connaught as he doth with them to which the Deputy returned answere requiring him to yeeld conformity in all things reasonable to the Queenes Officers and if any wrongs were offered him not to right himselfe by resistance or reuenge but to make The Deputy admonisheth both it knowne and he should receiue redresse He likewise wrote vnto the Gouernour aduising him to vse a gentle hand in the dealing with Orurke and people of his quality men of such fierce dispositions and natures being with roughnesse handled would easily be excited to the breach of obedience which might proue a charge to the State and a disquiet to the Country This admonition Sir Richard tooke somewhat vnkindly as a mistike of his Gouernement and resteaint of his proceedings against Orurke and did not stick to tell the Deputy afterward at the Councell Table that his Lordship gaue countenance to Orurke vnto the diminution of his Authority in that Prouince So difficult it was for the Deputy to appease or reconcile a difference betweene so stout a Commaunder and so factious and rebellious a spirit being powerfull The Gouernour being perswaded out of his iudgement that it was now time to prosecute Orurke while the Bourkes were yet weary of their late strugling so as standing without partakers hee would the more surely fall or at least bee brought with more facility to the path of obedience being the onely man now to be doubted in that Prouince hauing in his possession the strongest and fastest Country there And it is not vnlikely but the Deputy would haue ioyned with him therein if he had not had priuate reasons to the contrary arising from the present question of his actions in England and his desire and sute to be reuoked thence which were things onely knowne to himselfe These distempers now yet but flashes which were kindled by discontent were quenched by care and prouidence and had they not beene well met within time would haue growne to greater flames of commotion and did afterwards arise againe for want of like circumspection in the succeeding Gouernment which argued both the wisedome of the Gouernour who would haue taken the time to take away the cause and the preuailing power in the Deputy euen in the worst Subiects hearts to make them conformable against their natures While the Deputy was busie to preuent perils which might growe by heart burnings within his Gouernement Some of his Aduersaries were as deepely trauailed to procure A rumour of the Deputies remoue his disquiet and disgrace Amongst other inuentions Reports were raised that hee should presently be reuoked and another sent in his place being a thing not as yet thought on in England whereof so soone as hee had notice though he esteemed them but as rumours yet lice tooke occasion to renue his suite vnto the Queene for his remouing And besought her if such were her pleasure which hee humbly desired and shewed reasons for such his desire that yet her Highnesse would suppresse the opinion and publishing thereof vntill his successour should be ready to come ouer because he knew by experience that the wauering and worst sort of people in that Kingdome were apt to take aduantage vpon the alteration of the chiefe Gouernour especially in the Interim of his Gouernement if they had notice before hand to stirre vp troubles in the State The Gentlemen of the English Pale stirre vp the Lords to write to the Queene for the stay of Sir Iohn Perrot in that gouernement The Gentlemen of the English Pale in loue with his Iustice and vpright Gouernement were much troubled at this newes of whom diuers of the better sort of Plunbetts Flemmings Barnewells Bellews Cusacks Delahides Taafs Nangles and others of good account to the number of 67 wrote a ioynt Letter to the Noble men their neighbours of the notice they had taken of the remouing the present Lord Deputy from that Gouernement whom they therein testified to haue gouerned with Iustice care and prouidence for the good of that Kingdome whereby they had enioyed much peace and prosperity for the truth wherof they appealed vnto them whom they besought as they tendered the welfare of their Countrey to bee a meanes vnto the Queenes Maiesty for the retayning and continuing him in that Gouernement to perfect what hee had begun and was likely to bring vnto a good end if he remained amongst them The Lords of the English Pale vpon
receite of this Letter though many of them as is said had beene wrought to write against the Deputie yet now acknowledging the same the Gentry did wrote a particular Letter which they sent vnto the Queene desiring the continuance of the present Deputy amongst them giuing him all the specious attributes could be yeelded an extraordinary Patron of that poore Country some of them as is already mentioned recanting their errour of accusing him of heauy and tirannous courses now called him the Father of that poore Kingdome setting forth his fatherlike care for the vniuersall tranquillity and the administration of particular Iustice These Letters though they needed not for as yet there was no intention of his calling thence yet they gaue a sharpe blowe to his Aduersaries whose informations must needes be suspected to proceede onely out of malice since the parties that most felt the good and euill of Gouernement gaue this testimony of him which they did in respect of the feare they had of his remoue being so bruted as well in approbation of his actions as to preuent the mischiefes which might happen by his going thence the smart whereof they were like to feele The Copie of this Letter is yet extant The Cauanagh shew the cause of the Rebellion About this time Donnogh Mac Murtogh Cauanagh and Murtogh Oge Mac Morough Cauanagh lately reuolted from their obedience made humble submission to the Deputy shewing the cause of their reuolt as the killing of their Father by Sir Dudieigh Bagnall and Heron whom they slewe His not permitting them to liue on the Lands giuen by Sir Peter Carew vnto their Father pursuing and forcing them to flye vnto the Woods in which pursuit he was shine They craue pardon and offer Seruice shewing who they were that procured Mr. Bagnall and Heron to kill their Father and to banish them 〈…〉 Mac 〈…〉 Art Cormagh Mac Anispeck Conologh Mac Gilpatrick with other their Followers and Companions While the Deputies care concurring with the peoples good liking did preuent many mischiefes like to ensue The practise of such as he had displeased by crossing their courses and vndue proceedings did not cease to worke his trouble and disquiet Amongst whom the Earle of Ormond was now become one that laboured The Earle of Ormond enformes against the Deputy by secret information to incense the Queene against him which procured from her and in her name sharpe reprehensions which did much disquiet him and prouoked his cholerick and passionate nature to offend and exceede himselfe for being vexed with indignities and conceiued iniuries hee could not forbeare to speake and sometimes to write as tarely as he found himselfe dealt withall The Deputy writeth again to the Queene for his remoue And now thinking himselfe wounded in his reputation he wrote to the Queene her selfe shewing againe how hee was disabled to doe her Seruice and dishonoured by her beliefe of his vniust Aduersaries their practises and suggestions Hee prayeth lycence to repaire vnto her Presence for aunswering of his Accuser and that hee might be remooued from that vnfortunate Gouernement He likewise wrote vnto the Earle of Leycester who much fauoured him protesting in plaine manner that rather then hee would liue there to bee so vexed in minde crossed in his best intended courses and brought into the Queenes displeasure hee wonld take on him George the Chimney sweepers place at Court those being his words and therefore vrgeth his helpe for his remoouall or leaue to come vnto the Queene but that Earle then engaged in the Action of the Lowe-Countries wherein all his power was sette a worke could not yeeld him that helpe his loue would otherwise haue afforded Contention betweene the Earle of Tyrone and diuers Vlster Lords preying one vpon another Diuers dislikes and some disturbance of the publique began betwixt Tirlogh Leynaugh Oneale and the Earle of Tyrone for whereas formerly there had beene a deuision of the Lands in Vlster challenged to belong to Oneale deuided betwixt them both and of later time Tirlogh Leynaugh had beene drawne by composition to take a thousand Markes Rent by the yeare of the Earle to be payed at foure Feasts for certaine Landes during some yeares Now Tirlogh Leynaugh complaineth that the Earle did not onely refuse the payment of this Rent but had committed outrages on himselfe and his people hauing taken diuers preyes out of his Country terrified his Tenants and had enticed diuers of them from him and his Lands whereof hee writeth particularly by sundry Letters vnto the Deputy shewing his vnwillingnesse to breake the Queenes peace desireth order may be taken for the returne of his Tenants ' and their goods with satisfaction for his men slaine and such Rent as the Earle was endebted to him These complaints being by the Deputy sent to Tyrone he maketh answer that first for Tirloghs Tenants that since Tirlogh was not able to restraine his people from annoying his Tenants hee was not to refuse any that would come from Tirlogh to liue vnder him denieth any killing or preying vpon Tirlogh his men or Country by him or his men for the arreare of Rent due or claymed to bee due hee partly denyeth and partly euades the payment In the meane time while these complaints were exhibited and answeres expected more outrages begunne betweene them and their followers and new violences were offered before the olde could be redressed for Tirlogh being growne olde and forsaken by many of his followers either for want of protection from Tirlogh or feare of the Earles encreasing greatnesse Tyrone giues another blowe to Tirlogh by taking a prey of 2000 Cowes with many Mares and Garons from Sir Arte Oneale Tirloghs sonne whereof the Deputy being aduertised sent to Tyrone what was enformed and to require him both to forbeare further acts of hostility and to restore what had been so taken from Tirloghs sonne or his Tennants to which the Earle maketh answere by accusing Sir Arte Oneale to haue taken a prey from his people at his last being at Dublin and insteed of restitution which he demaunded sent the Earle defiance when he required peace to be obserued Sir Arthur Oneale affirmed on the other side that the Earles brother Cormagh tooke a prey first from some of his men who in recouering of their losse tooke the like from his for which Tyrone spoyled him and his followers of a farre greater value as hee complained The Deputy looking vpon the danger of these brawles contentions and spoyles sendeth two Messengers called Bynion and Bremicham with Letters and streight commaundements vnto Tirlogh and his sonne and to the Earle of Tyrone charging them vpon their loyalties vnto their Soueraigne to forbeare all attempts of violence and reuenge one towards another and to the Earle he signified that if it were true that he had receiued some iniuries at the hands of Sir Arthur Oneale yet it could not be lawfull that he should be a reuenger of his owne wrongs and if he