portion of his account ran thus:  ’For the dyett of 80 of said soldiers for 16 daies, during which tyme they were kept in prison in Dungannon till they were sent away, at iiiid le peece per diem; allso for dyett of 72 of said men kept in prison at Armagh till they were sent away to Swethen, at iiiid le peece per diem,’ &c., &c.  Caulfield was well rewarded for these services; and Captain Sandford, married to the niece of the first Earl of Charlemont, obtained a large grant of land on the same score.  This system of clearing out the righting men among the Irish was continued till 1629, when the lord deputy, Falkland, wrote that Sir George Hamilton, a papist, then impressing soldiers in Tyrone and Antrim, was opposed by one O’Cullinan, a priest, who was rash enough to advise the people to stay at home and have nothing to do with the Danish wars.  For this he was arrested, committed to Dublin Castle, tortured and then hanged.

With regard to the immediate followers of O’Dogherty in his insane course, many of the most prominent leaders were tried by court-martial and executed.  Others were found guilty by ordinary course of law.  Among these was O’Hanlon, Sir Cahir’s brother-in-law.  Pie was hanged at Armagh; and his youthful wife was found by a soldier, ’stripped of her apparel, in a wood, where she perished of cold and hunger, being lately before delivered of a child.’  M’Davitt, the firebrand of the rebellion, was convicted and executed at Derry.  At Dungannon Shane, Carragh O’Cahan was found guilty by ‘a jury of his kinsmen’ and executed in the camp, his head being stuck upon the castle of that place—­the castle from which his brother was mainly instrumental in driving its once potent lord into exile.  At the same place a monk, who was a chief adviser of the arch-rebel, saved his life and liberty by tearing off his religious habit, and renouncing his allegiance to the Pope.  Father Meehan states that many of the clergy, secular and regular, of Inishown might have saved their lives by taking the oath of supremacy.  It was a terrible time in Donegal.  No day passed without the killing and taking of some of the dispersed rebels, one betraying another to get his own pardon, and the goods of the party betrayed, according to a proviso in the deputy’s proclamation.  Among the informers was a noble lady, the mother of Hugh Roe O’Donel and Rory Earl of Tyronnel, who accused Nial Garve, her own son-in-law, of complicity in O’Dogherty’s revolt, for which she got a grant of some hundreds of acres in the neighbourhood of Kilmacrenan.

The insurgent leaders and the dangerous kerne having been effectually cleared off in various ways, the whole territory of Inishown was overrun by the king’s troops.  The lord deputy, Sir Arthur Chichester, with a numerous retinue, including the attorney-general, sheriffs, lawyers, provosts-martial, engineers, and ‘geographers,’ made a grand ‘progress,’ and penetrated for the first time the region which