At Carlingford, for example, he swept off one day 200 sheep and oxen, while his men violated sixty women in the town; but Elizabeth looked away and endeavoured not to see.

The English Government had resolved to stir no sleeping dogs in Ireland till a staff was provided to chastise them if they would bite.

Terence Daniel, the dean of those rough-riding canons of Armagh, was installed as primate; the Earl of Sussex was recalled to England; and the new archbishop, unable to contain his exultation at the blessed day which had dawned upon his country, wrote to Cecil to say how the millennium had come at last, glory be to God!' As a picture of Irish savage life this is very good.

But the historian has presented a companion picture of English civilised life, which is not at all inferior.

Sir Thomas Wroth and Sir Nicholas Arnold were sent over to reform the Pale.