. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . th, and a message from Mountjoy offering peace forsubmission. This did not please Xeil Garv, who accountedhimself now lord, both dc jure and de fad\\ of Tyrconnell, andas soon as Red Hughs death was announced, assembled the clanat Kilmacrenan and caused himself to be proclaimed theODonnell. Meanwhile Rory was with Mountjoy, and Xeil, indespite of orders, seized Rorys cattle. Docwra, who seemedinclined to fulfil his pledge, reasoned with Xeil and endeavouredto bring him to a more submissive mood, and it would seemhad succeeded, when word came from
. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . th, and a message from Mountjoy offering peace forsubmission. This did not please Xeil Garv, who accountedhimself now lord, both dc jure and de fad\\ of Tyrconnell, andas soon as Red Hughs death was announced, assembled the clanat Kilmacrenan and caused himself to be proclaimed theODonnell. Meanwhile Rory was with Mountjoy, and Xeil, indespite of orders, seized Rorys cattle. Docwra, who seemedinclined to fulfil his pledge, reasoned with Xeil and endeavouredto bring him to a more submissive mood, and it would seemhad succeeded, when word came from Mountjoy that he would 198 NEIL FLIES TO DOE CASTLE CHAP, bear with Neil no longer; and so he commanded Docwrato arrest the chief, on the ground that he had committedtreason in taking the style of ODonnell. Docwra did notlike the commission, as appears from his account—indeed,he seems to have been much too honest a man for thisemploy—but the most he could do was to spare Neil theindignity of fetters. Neil seemed wonderful thankful for it,. Doe Castle. but to Docwras disgust seized an early occasion to , however, was too quick for him, and cut off his escapeto the North-West. Neils troop was scattered and he himselfsought refuge with the McSwineys, in Doe Castle. But OwenOge, the lord of Doe, was then in Docwras hands and wasobliged to take an English garrison into his fortress; so Neilhad no choice but to submit. The unlucky man, through XIII CONQUEST AND FAMINE 109 whom, more than through any other, the English* had now got ahold on Tyrconnell that could never be shaken off, went toLondon to plead his services, but James and his Councildistrusted so good a soldier. They accepted Rorys submission,and gave him the earldom of Tyrconnell, a title which had beenoffered in 1541 by Henry to Manus, Rorys grandfather, thebiographer of Columbkille. Rory was put in possession of allthe ODonnell rights, except a thousand acres about Bally-shannon, and the fishery, which t
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