240 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 59. Devilish Prelate ' so St Leger called the Archbishop
- was to resist the good devices which had been formed
for the welfare of Ireland/ and he could but hope that the Queen would ' presently, with all the speed that might be, send over the well-minded persons who intended to adventure their lives and livings in the conquest/ Finding Elizabeth slower than he wished, Sir War- ham and Grenville hastened back to London to quicken her resolutions, and the moment of their absence was seized by Fitzmaurice to call his people under arms. A small vessel which belonged to Sir John Hawkins, and was one of the two which escaped from San Juan do Ulloa, was in the harbour of Kin sale. There were a few pieces of bronze artillery on board, of which Fitzmaurice possessed himself ; and with these, in company with the Earl of Clancarty, he came down upon the lands of which they had been robbed. Lady St Leger and Lady Grenville, who had been left in possession, had just time to escape into Cork ; the whole establishment tenants, servants, farm, labourers had their throats cut; ten thousand of their cattle were driven off into the hills, and Clancarty announced ostentatiously that he was henceforward plain MacCarty More, and would never wear his Earl's coronet more. The towns throughout the provinces, one after the other, opened their gates to the two chiefs. Mass was said in the churches again wherever it had been dropped. The suspended Des- mond rents were levied in kind, or paid gratefully under the excuse of compulsion. The same course was
