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248 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. |CH. 59. putting every man to death whom he caught in arms, and leaving detachments wherever they could best over- awe the country. To punish Kilmalloch for receiving the rebels, he carried off the mace and keys, suspended the liberties of the town, and stationed 500 men there, under Humfrey Gilbert, who, being disappointed of his estates, remained to serve as a soldier. Sidney himself marched on to Limerick, to Galway, to B-oscommon, and thence across to Armagh and the borders of Tyrone ; making a complete circuit through the disturbed districts, and intending to finish the cam- paign by a visit to Tirlogh Lenogh. In this quarter he found himself relieved of immediate trouble. Tirlogh Lenogh had married the widow of James M'Connell. 1 Some wild domestic injury was connected with the alli- ance, and the new chief of the O'Neils was shot through- the body one night as he was sitting at supper, and dangerously wounded. The Deputy therefore contented himself with a rapid raid across his borders, and re- turned at the beginning of October to Dublin. The expedition had been swift, vigorous, and not without effect. The destruction might have satisfied the propensities even of an Irish chieftain. Two gar- risons had been left in the heart of Munster. Clanrickard and Thomond had presented themselves at Limerick, and made an affected submission ; and Sir Edward Fitton, a Dublin judge, was placed with a third detach- ment at Galway, as President of Connaught. The 1 Sister of Shan's Countess and a daughter of the House of Ar.;yl(