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(1 hi 5' ' ’ that haslthe victory, let him take milk, and all tohimsclf.” - . 51””
' ‘-if The galloglogh was soon put to his last breath, after ml“
which the Iliglilander came in and dined heartily. A -I05“
2 ii. M‘Quillan’s gallogloghs assembled to demand satisfac-V A M
33: tion, and, in a council which was held, where the con- I amlvt
gt duct of the Scots was debated, their great and dan-
:3 gerous power, and the disgrace arising from the seduction Wgl
of M‘Quillan’s daughter, 'it was agreed, that each gaI% ' ‘Oil?
" loglogh should kill his comrade Highlander by night, and ring:
their lord and master with them ; but Colonel M‘Donald’s perm
wife discovered the plot, and told it to her husband. So xiii
the Highlanders fled in the night time, first to Knock- Ciicl
lade, thence to Bally-castle, and in attempting to escape Scsze
to Scotland, were driven into thelsland of Baghery. , ,
I “ Coll and M‘Quillan were restoredto friendship, and xv ‘ll
'. I lived happily together ; but,.upon the death of M‘Quillan, ‘ 3 hurti
E123 v"i his nephew, who lived at Ballylough, set up a claim to rend
the property of Dunluce, and the wars which ensued . tome
x between the M‘Donalds and M‘Quillans continued for T]
f‘E3 ,5 iicaijly half a century, till the English power became so Colo
Q‘ . 1 pg“ superior in Ireland, that both parties appealed to James. (mi
3 1'1: 3; the First, who had just then ascended the throne. James E the
iii Q; 9;? had a predilection for his Scotch countryman, the 1 Y5]
3,33 ii: 3 M‘Douald, to whom he made over by patent four great Q mi,‘
V; l baronies, "including along with ‘ other ‘Iands,“!all poor gm
1 5 : l‘J‘Quillan’s possessions. However, to retain some ap- Em
3;’ '1 M pearance of justice, he gave“ to”WI Quillan” a grantyof the 1 Joh
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‘ The Antrim MS. states, that M‘Quillan and Sir John waited 5“
upon the King, and endeavoured to prejudice the suit of ltI‘Do11altl i
with him, by representing M‘Quill3n as an Englishman, being de-. .‘
sfcended from the De llurghs, Eiiglish zettlcrs. ‘ ' ,
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