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.'rrI:oNn.’ 41
the heads” of their leaders, and adopting every available means for subduing
‘Ireland. And this was at length effected. One by one the chieftains sub-
mitted, making “humble suite for mercy,” .while Tyrone, who had long calcu-
lated upon maintaining his position only by aid of the Spaniards, saw his allies
walled up” at Kxnsale (1601); he was himself, with all his forces, signally
defeated in an attempt to relieve them; he retired to his own fastnesses,
where he “ drew faintly his last breath, without hope of better living than as
ftwood-kerne, or as a. fugitive abroad ;” and abandoning all hope of a successful
Issue, did, in 1602, signify his desire to make absolute submission to the
queen’s mercy, humbly beseeching her to remember that “he was a nobleman,
and to take compassion on him, that the overthrow of his house and posterity
might be prevented.”‘ He received “security for his life only,” and sub-
Sequently accompanied the Lord Mountjoy to London, so that, “upon his
knees,” he might obtain mercy from King James the First. On his way from
Beaumaris, “no respect to his lordship could prevent many women who had
lost husbands and children in the Irish warres, from flinging dirt and‘ stones
at the earle as he passed, and reviling him with bitter words.” He returned,
l10Wcvc1‘, to Ireland; his rank, power, and estates were partially restored to
him; but being, some time after, suspected of attempting a new rebellion, he
fled into Spain, leaving his enormous property at the disposal of the king, by
whom it was parcelled out and distributed among English settlers; out of this
rebellion, therefore, arose the famous “plantation of Ulster”-a subject to
which we shall refer in treating of the county of Londoudeiry; which was
principally given, or rather sold, to the “London Companies,” and of which
they are still in possession.
It is scarcely necessary to add, that out of this prolonged warfare in the
province of Ulster, arose many of the castles, the ruins of which exist as
records of its history, and, at least, add something to the picturesque character
of the scenery. Among the most striking of them is Castle-Caultield, which
owes its erection to Sir Toby Caultield, afterwards Lord Charlemout. Having
P1'0Vi011S1y “performed many serviceable and memorable actions" in Spain
and the Low Countries, he was appointed to the command of 150 men against
the “formidable traitor" 0’Neil. He was rewarded by the queen with a
und should be so mannred, the fields so orderly fenced, the
incredible that by so barbarous inlmlnitants the gro
so well beaten as the lord-deputy here found
Kownes so frequently intersected, and the highwayes and paths
them.” The horrible straits to which the unhappy Irish were reduced during this rebellion are too revolting
for publication. Fynes llloryson, an eye-witness, concludes :1 more friglnful picture by stating ill!“ “ “0 SD00‘
tncle was more frequent in the ditches of townes, and esprcinlli l“ ‘"‘5t"d c"“mle5' than W 599 mummdgs M
these poor people dead, with their months all coloured greene, by eating nettlcs, docks, and all things they
could rend up above ground.”