Among these were Mrs.Margery Fitzgerald, of the age of fourscore years, and her husband, Mr.Henry Fitzgerald of Lackagh; although (as it afterwards appeared) the tories had by their frequent robberies much infested that gentleman and his tenants--discovery that seems to have been made only after the king's restoration.' The penalties against the tories themselves were to allow them no quarter when caught, and to set a price upon their heads.

The ordinary price for the head of a tory was 40 s.; for leaders of tories, or distinguished men, it varied from 5 l.

to 30 l.
'But,' continues Mr.Prendergast, 'a more effective way of suppressing tories seems to have been to induce them, as already mentioned, to betray or murder one another--a measure continued after the Restoration, during the absence of parliaments, by acts and orders of state, and re-enacted by the first parliament summoned after the Revolution, when in that and the following reigns almost every provision of the rule of the parliament of England in Ireland was re-enacted by the parliaments of Ireland, composed of the soldiers and adventurers of Cromwell's day, or new English and Scotch capitalists.
In 1695 any tory killing two other tories proclaimed and on their keeping was entitled to pardon--a measure which put such distrust and alarm among their bands on finding one of their number so killed, that it became difficult to kill a second.

Therefore, in 1718, it was declared sufficient qualification for pardon for a tory to kill one of his fellow-tories.

This law was continued in 1755 for twenty-one years, and only expired in 1776.