This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...men who robbed the country. Sir Richard therefore ordered his arrest. John Carie, the sub-sheriff, found him at MacTibbot's castle of the Crigh. He resisted and wounded Carie, but was mortally wounded himself. This seems to have occurred very early in 1586. John Browne prosecuted Walter Bourke, and took thirty cows ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...men who robbed the country. Sir Richard therefore ordered his arrest. John Carie, the sub-sheriff, found him at MacTibbot's castle of the Crigh. He resisted and wounded Carie, but was mortally wounded himself. This seems to have occurred very early in 1586. John Browne prosecuted Walter Bourke, and took thirty cows from him about that time. About the same time Cloasearlykane and fifty of his band were executed. His head is said to have been taken by Roger O'Flaherty. The seventy persons said to have been hanged at the sessions at Galway in January 1586 may have comprised some of this gang. Sir Richard Bourke died soon after September, whereby the succession to the name and profits of MacWilliam came to be settled by the lord deputy, to whose discretion it was reserved by the composition. It seems that the action of Walter and Thomas Bourke did not amount to much, or was ignored as long as possible. It is very likely that their deeds were treated as ordinary breaches of the law until they assumed a political aspect which could not be ignored, towards the close of the year, after the death of Sir R. Bourke, when Edmund was not immediately recognised as MacWilliam. Edmund of Castlebar, being Tanist, should have succeeded. He had lost a leg two years before, and could not take the field. His sons, Richard Bourke the Devil's Hook's son, Edmund Ciocarach and Walter Ban, sons of David Ban, Caheer MacDonnell, and others, manned Castlehag in Lough Mask and the castle of the Annagh, which now belonged to Richard Roe Bourke, who did not openly join them, but endeavoured to secure adherents and to hire Scots from Ulster. Sir Richard Bingham was engaged in the siege of Cloonoan Castle in Thomond during the first week of March. Thence he came with one hundred men and a f...
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