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192 campion's historie Author of a dishonourable report, that Mac Conils wife did offer to forsake her country and friends, and to marry with Shane Oneale her husbands destruction; Mary (quoth the Secretary) if thine Aunt were Queen of Scotland, it might beseeme her full well, to seeke such a marriage. To this brawle Oneale gave eare, upheld his man, advaunced his owne degree : The com- parison bred a fray betweene their Souldiours; Out sprang Aspucke, and beat Oneales man, and then sud- dainely brought his band upon them in the tent, where the Souldiours with their slaughter-knives, killed the Secretary and Shane Oneale, mangled him cruelly, lapped him in an old Irish shirte, and tumbled him into a pit, within an old Chappell hard by : whose head foure dayes after, Captaine Pierce cut off" and met therewith the Deputy, who sent it before him staked on a pole, to the Castle of Divelin, where it now standeth. It is thought that Tirlagh who now usurpeth the name of Oneale, practised this devise with Agnes, Alex- ander, and Torwy, when he perceived Shane discou- raged, and not able to hold out. Thus the wretched man ended, who might have lived like a Prince, had he not quenched the sparkes of grace that appeared in him, with arrogancy and contempt against his Prince. The next Tumult in Ireland proceeded of the folly, especially of Sir Edmund Butler, Pierce and Edward his Brethren, who being unable in law, to maintaine