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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scolairebocht" data-source="post: 148089" data-attributes="member: 8">21. The Earl prosecuting some rebels in the country, killed some of them & took their chieftain prisoner, whom the Earl carried off to Sir Henry Folliott to be executed, for which the Earl had this reward, that his adversaries proposed to the imprisoned person to save his life, if he, could accuse the Earl of any crime that might work his overthrow, which he could not do whereupon he was hanged.22. Carey directed a general covenant to Sir Ralph Bingley, Vice Governor of Lough Foyle, and to Captain Cole, Vice Governor of Ballyshannon, to compel all Niall’s tenants, as Sir Niall demanded, to return to him, with their goods and chattels. Whereupon the said Vice Governors made motion of an examination of 12 of the Earl’s men and as many of Sir Niall’s, whether and what tenants did unto either of them belong. Whereunto the men being come the Earl’s men were not examined but locked up into a room, and the Vice Governors upon the false deposition of Sir Niall’s men, directed warrant and sent soldiers to the number of 300 to bring all the Earl’s tenants, against their wills, unto Sir Niall, to the number of 340, who paid half a crown apiece & 12d for every cow and garran, as a fee unto the Captains, whereby they lost their ploughing for 28 days, the soldiers being in the country all the while.23. The Earl afterwards finding no justice at Carey’s hands, went into England & made complaint and procured letters of sundry articles in answer to his demands, to Sir Arthur Chichester Lord Deputy, who on receipt of them seemed willing to give the Earl contentment in his demands, & withal consented & gave warrant for establishing the Earl in possession of the Lifford, which he recalled next day, & deferred the matter until his going to the North. Where he came & took a view of the town & called to Council Sir Henry Docwra to know his opinion concerning the place for His Majesty’s service, the which, more for his own profit than for his service, he judged to be a place most requisite for his Majesty’s use, but afterward the Lord Deputy being at his house, Sir Henry wife begged a lease of the said town for 21 years, with the market thereof, whereby he detected his project in his wrong & unjust opinion concerning the place, all which to be true the Lord Deputy will not deny.24. After the Earl was in possession of Castle Doe by Sir George Carey’s warrant, one Niall McSweeney, pretending a title to it, forcibly entered the said Castle, the Earl being in England, & dispossessed the Earl’s Constable, under an order afterward granted by the Council against the Earl. And on the Earl’s return from England he made humble suit to the Lord Deputy to be restored to the possession, whereof he was so treacherously dispossessed, until a course of Law were taken between the said Niall & him. The which he did not obtain but possession was maintained against him until Niall went out into rebellion, whereby the Earl lost the rent of 60 quarters of land for a year & a half, the Earl yearly paying the King’s rent for the same, & afterward the Earl besieged and won it at his own charges, in recompence of which the Lord Deputy appointed Capt Brook to dwell there & constrained the Earl to accept of such rents as he had given order to the said captain to pay, and to pass a lease thereof and 4 quarters of the best land thereunto for 21 years to the said captain.25. Captain Henry Vaughan being sheriff, in 1605 got a warrant to levy £150 upon the County for building of a session house, which was only built of timber and wattles, and although the captain promised to make it substantial and durable, yet was it not worth £10, it having fallen in one mouth after being built, yet he sent soldiers at the country’s charges to levy every penny of the said money & afterward the country was forced to defray the charges of another session house for the next year ensuing by the Lord Deputy’s appointment & order.26. At the same Sessions in 1605, the Lord Deputy being at Lifford, there was one Owen McSweeney to be executed, to whom by appointment of Sir Oliver Lambert, who gave a caveat to Sr Henry Folliott, as often as there should be any persons executed to assure them of their lives, if they inform any matter to overthrow or prejudice the Earl. Sir Henry sent privates promising him his life & large rewards if he would charge the Earl with some detestable crime.27. At the same Sessions the Earl was called to the bar for hanging some wood kerne during the Lord Lieutenant’s time, he having then authority to execute martial law, in so much that he had to plead a particular pardon which he had, as the Judge alleged the general pardon would not avail him or stand him in any stead.28. A short time after, Sir Henry Docwra’s & Sir Henry Folliott’s horsemen and footmen were by the Lord Deputy’s warrant cessed upon the country, where they remained for 4 months and paid nothing for their charges for horse meat or man’s meat.29. The Earl having purchased £1,600 worth of his own inheritance from Sir Ralph Bingley, who entered into bonds of the staple of £3,000 for maintaining the Earl in possession of all the lands he had passed unto the Earl, against all persons pretending title to the whole or any part thereof; yet the Council gave warrant to one who was Sir Ralph’s tenant, before the passing of the said land to the Earl, to enter into possession of all such lands as he formerly held, by virtue of a writing between him & Sir Ralph, mentioning no certain rent but which Sir Ralph pleased to demand, so he continued in possession and paid no rent to the Earl. And into another part of the said lands the Bishop of Derry entered, pretending the same as his right, and afterward Sir Ralph being arrived in Ireland, the Earl made suit to the Lord Deputy to have him apprehended, until he performed covenant according to the said bonds. Which the Lord Deputy would not do but bade him to deal with the mayor of Dublin to have him arrested, and when the mayor’s officer was brought to execute the warrant, with as full an authority as might be, Sir Ralph showed the Lord Deputy’s warrant of protection, whereby the Earl lost both his lands and his money.30. On the Lord Deputy’s coming into Fermanagh in 1606, the Earl having gone thither to meet him, he sent privately, one Teigue O’Corcoran, servant to Maguire, and brought him secretly into the hall where he slept, where he was bound & tortured with bed cords that they might extort or he charge the Earl with something tending to the Earl’s overthrow and ruin, where he continued for 5 days, within which time the Lord Deputy came to Ballyshannon where he, being at supper, demanded of the Earl what right he had to the former things he claimed in the several territories before specified. Whereunto the Earl answered that his ancestors were in possession of the several territories before specified for 1300 years & that the said duties, rents and homages were duly observed and paid during the said time. Whereunto he replied that the Earl was unworthy to have them, & that he should [never] enjoy them, that the state was sore [Meehan has ‘sorry’] he had so much left him as had then in possession, & withal wished him to take heed of himself, or else he would make his pate ache; all which he said in the presence of the Lord Chief Justice, others of the Council and divers gentlemen, that sat at the table.31. At the same time there were sundry old challenges of tenants, preys and spoils, between the Earl & Sir Niall, which controversies the Earl for his part, at the Lord Deputy’s entreaty (he promising first to order and answer all the spoils taken by virtue of Sir George Carey’s warrant), preferred to the Lord Deputy’s censure, and delivered up to that end all his papers, and notwithstanding this promise there were £300 ordered against the Earl and all his challenges frustrated and his papers burnt. And afterwards Sir Niall’s papers were privately given back to himself by reason whereof the Earl was forced at the last Sessions to give to Sir Niall the benefit of all the said papers again, he having nothing to show to the contrary.32. On the Lord Deputy’s return to Fermanagh he sent for Maguire and wished him to accuse the Earl. Maguire protested he could not charge him with anything, to whom the Lord Deputy replied with an oath he should never part from him, until he had confessed matters against the Earl.33. Ferighe O’Reilly being condemned to be hanged at Athlone for some crime, by a messenger secretly sent by the Lord Deputy who arrived just as the said Ferighe was to be hanged, and so offered him his life and large rewards if he would charge the Earl with treason, which he promised to do and thereupon he was taken back, and privately examined. But finding his examination to halt (no wonder since it was forged at the same instant) re-sent him to the prison to remain there until he had performed somewhat of that he had promised and if he could not do it then he was to be hanged, & there he continued until the Earl his departure from Ireland.34. Donogh O’Brien, who had sometime followeth the Earl, was committed to prison of Athlone from whence he escaped. Sir Oliver Lambert sent a protection to him, & he being come before the Lord Deputy and Sir Oliver in a private chamber, Sir Oliver told him he should have his pardon & large rewards if he would charge the Earl with treason, but he neither could, nor would, do so and chose rather to abandon his native country than feel the effects of their merciless mercy.35. Owen Grany McCormuck, natural (son) of Moylurg in the Co. of Roscommon, was taken prisoner and brought before the Earl of Clanricarde and the Council of Connaught, by order of the Lord Deputy, to accuse the Earl. And being examined he swore before them all he could not charge him with anything, whereupon he was enlarged.</blockquote>

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