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 1563.] SHAN a NEIL. 155 with whom he had to deal ; she had never intended to exact any strict account of him ; and if he was dis- satisfied with the arrangements to which he had consented when in England, he had but to prove himself a good subject, and he l should not only have those points re- formed, but also any pre-eminence in that country which her Majesty might grant without doing any other person wrong/ If he desired to have a council established at Armagh, he should himself be the president of that council ; if he wished to drive the Scots out of Antrim, her own troops should assist in the expulsion; if he was offended with the garrison in the cathedral, she would gladly see peace maintained in a manner less expensive to herself. To the Primacy he might name the person most agreeable to himself; and with the Primacy, as a /natter of course, even the form of maintaining the Pro- testant Church would be abandoned also. In return for these concessions the Queen demanded only that to save her honour Shan should sue for them as a favour instead of demanding them as a right. 1 The rebel chief consented without difficulty to conditions which cost him nothing ; and after an interview with Cusak, O'Neil wrote a formal apology to Elizabeth, and promised for the future to be her Majesty's true and faithful subject. Indentures were drawn on the lyth of December, in which the Ulster sovereignty was trans- ferred to him in everything but the name ; and the treaty such treaty as it was required only Elizabeth's 1 Instructions to Sir Thomas Cusak, August 7 : Irish MSS,