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 602 &&1GN OF ELIZABETH. JCH. 62. was shown for their souls : they were Catholics, and an English clergyman 1 tried to convert them on the way to the scaffold. ' Is it not enough/ said a young Eus- tace to him, ' that you have our lives, but that you must seek to draw us from our religion ? Yade post me, Satana Get thee behind me/ 2 Kildare was sent to England. Confessions of ac- complices showed that he had been in close correspond- ence with Baltinglass. He escaped trial however and died in the Tower three years after. Col. Zouch fell in with Sir John of Desmond, the murderer of Davell, one misty morning on the Avonmore river, killed him at last and sent his head to Dublin, while his body swung, like a mountebank's, in chains on the top of a tower in Cork, ' his legs upwards, his arms down ; so high hang- ing he might be seen a mile off: a terrible sight to the rest of the rebels, a comely funeral and end of an earl's son, but too good for such a murderer and traitor.' 3 Ir .g 2 Sir Nicholas Malby being recalled to Eng- February. l an d on business, committed Connaught to Captain Brabazon, whose administration left behind even that of his leader and instructor. 'Neither the sanctuary of the saint nor of the poet,' write the Four Masters, ' neither the wood nor the forest valley, the town nor the bawn, was a shelter from this captain and his people till the whole territory was destroyed by him/ 1 Thomas Jones, father of the first ! 3 John Meadc to Walsingham, Lord Ranelagh. j from Cork, February 8, 1581-2: 2 Notes of executions in Dublin, j MSS. Ibid. November, 1581 : MSS. Ireland.