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, 116 DUN LUCE CASTLE. (‘T
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pl g ' servants ; and when small shot played so thick out of the ptlu
Xl fa,‘ fort, that the common soldiers began to shrink in planting Q:
355 1;; “ i' the artillery, the Lord Deputy caused his own men to fill p I
, i the gabions with earth, and made good his ground, until of
5?; 31.. g ’ ii the ordnance was planted, and the trenches made. This A1‘
‘. being done, the Lord Deputy himself gave fire to the 2 En
g first piece of ordnance, which did no great hurt; m:
z; but, shortly after, the pile beginning to shake, they sent 7; to:
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it ‘ .- obtained leave to depart, in order to save the expense of‘ qu
' battering the place and re-building it again, it being a we
1 I place of great importance in those parts. his
Shortly after this siege, the castle was again lost to the tlu
English by the treachery of its governor.’ Upon the sur- co
render of Dunluce, the Lord Deputy appointed a pen-' hi]
sioner, named‘ Peter Carey, to be constable, with a ward his
of fourteen soldiers, believing Carey to be an Englishman ; 5
but it was afterwards discovered, that he was one of the l fa
Carews of the north. The constable confiding in his own ‘ m
countrymen, gradually discharged the English soldiers,’ E fn
;EE,'- and supplied 'their places with Irish. Two of these,’ , hz
, having confederated with the enemy, drew up fifty of D
them at night with ropes made of withies, and having 1
E surprised the castle, assaulted the tower wherein the con- i
stable lay ; and at first offered him his life and permission’ 7
to depart, but he chose rather to pay the price of his own’
treachery’, in admitting the Irish to his confidence, and j
was slain bravely fighting in the midst of them. i g ,3:
After this piece of treachery, the Lord Deputy dis-1
patched Merryman, to reduce Sorley-Boy to obedience, , C;
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who, having slam Alexander, ‘Sorley-Boy’s son, and sent W
his head to the Lord Deputy, then at Drogheda, who
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