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 256 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 59. The day following, their work lay in the beautiful valley of Imale, between Baltinglas and Blessington. There, reported the sergeant-major, 'they killed a foster-brother of James Eustace, Pat Tallon, and his brother David, whose heads were sent (like a bag of game) to the Lord Keeper ; ' another young fellow was run into and dispatched after a chase of three miles, and ' much spoil was taken.' After a few hours' rest, the soldiers swept round the base of Lugnaquilla to the upper waters of the Avanagh, and fell upon the Mac- Hughs. Feagh MacHugh, of whom they were chiefly in search, was absent, but ' they slew two of his foster- brothers, four or five kerns, and as many others as were in five cabins.' This done they turned homewards. On their way they picked up a woman, whom Agard carried to the station, meaning, as he said, ' to execute her, unless she would serve his purpose.' Captain Gfeorge, with a scouting party, encountered a party of Tallons, who had been abroad at mischief : one of them was killed ; the rest, as the soldiers wanted amusement, were stripped naked, and ' put in the bog.' The sergeant-major was moderately contented with these exploits, when spies brought him word that a further expedition might be made with advantage to a place called the Glennes, now Glenmalure. The cattle there went down out of the gorge in the mornings to feed in the meadows, and the soldiers might 'have either kine or killing,' so the report expressed it either drive off the herds or catch the people in their beds and murder them. ' Whereupon,' says Agard, ' I