It is such a model for dealing with the Fenians and tenants on the Tory plan, that I transcribe his own report, which Mr.Froude has found among the Irish MSS.

'At Christmas,' he wrote, 'I marched into their territory, and finding courteous dealing with them had like to have cut my throat, I thought good to take another course; and so with determination _to consume them with fire and sword, sparing neither old nor young_, I entered their mountains.

I burnt all their corn and houses, and committed to the sword all that could be found, where were slain at that time above sixty of their best men, and among them the best leaders they had.

This was Shan Burke's country.

Then I burnt Ulick Burke's country.