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 190 CAMPION'S HISTOIilE disturbeth and driveth out Mac Givire, the plaintiffs, burnetii the Metropolitane Church of Ardmagh, be- cause no English army might lodge therein, for which sacriledge the Primate accursed him, besiegeth Dun- dalke, practiseth to call strangers into the land for ayde, as appeareth by those letters which Sir Henri/ Sidney Lord Deputy intercepted, occupieth all the North of Ireland, being 100. myles broad, 120. long. Then ad- dressed he plausible letters to the Potentates of Moun- ster, exhorting them to rebell, that the force of Eng- land at once might bee dismembred. This message the Deputy prevented, stayed the country, abridged him of that hope, and then proclaimed him Traytor. An Irish Iester standing by, and hearing Oneale de- nounced with addition of a new name, traytor: Except (quoth he) traytor be a more honourable title then Oneale, he shall never take it upon him, by my consent. While the Deputy was absent in England, the towne of Droghedagh was in hazard to be taken by the Rebels, which to preserve, at the motion of the Lady Sidney, then abiding in Droghedagh, came Master Sarsfield then Major of Divelin, with a chosen band of goodly young men Citizens, and brake the rage of the ene- mies. * The Deputy returning made him Knight, and finding it now high time utterly to weede and roote out the Traytor, he furnished a substantiall army, and with the readines thereof hartened the Irish, whom Oneale had impoverished, cut off his adherents, and all accesse 1 15Q6.