John Mitchel
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 62
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. I EXPEDITION TO DERRY TREACHEROUS POLICY OF MOUNTJOY. A. D. 1600. Whilst the prince of Ulster was awakening and organizing the South, a new English deputy had arrived in Dublin, a more formidable enemy by far than any whom O'Neill had yet encountered. Charles Blount, Baron Mountjoy, who was not only an experienced officer, but a nobleman of much learning and taste, a " bookish man," as his secretary describes him, --a powerful theologian and confuter of Papists, arrived in February to take the command in Ireland. He had strict instructions to establish at once powerful garrisons in Derry and Ballyshannon; and to effect this paramount object, additional troops were to be poured into Ireland and placed at the governor's disposal;--a fleet of transport ships was to be provided.--No toil, or peril, or blood; no fraud, corruption, or treasure, was to be spared which might beceme necessary for the reduction of this re Camden. nowned Northern chieftain and his gallant Ulster septs under the sway of England Not that the queen of that country had any claim to the North, or any subjects there, or any just quarrel with the inhabitants or their chiefs; but English undertakers lusted after the broad lands of Ulster;--English divines longed to undertake the rich livings, the fertile carucates, ballyboes, and plow-lands wherewith Catholic piety had endowed that Northern church. And besides, an Irish annalist tells us, " it was great vexation of mind to the queen and her councils in England and Ireland, that the Kinel Conal, Kinel Eoghain and all Ulster, besides those chiefs that were confederated with them, had made so long and successful a defence against them. They also remembered, yea, it secretly preyed like a consumption upon their...