For two days the Geraldines revelled in plunder; they violated the women and murdered all who could not escape.

At length Elizabeth was roused to the greatness of the danger, her parsimony was overcome.

A larger force was drawn into Ireland than had ever been assembled there for a century.

Ormond, the hereditary enemy of Desmond, was appointed commander-in-chief; and Burghley, writing to him in the name of the queen, concluded thus: 'So now I will merely say, Butler aboo, against all that cry in the new language--Papa aboo, and God send your hearts' desire to banish and vanquish those cankered Desmonds!' The war now raged, and, as usual, the innocent people, the cultivators of the soil, were the first victims.

'We passed through the rebel countries,' wrote Pelham, 'in two companies, burning with fire _all habitations, and executing the people_ wherever we found them.' Mr.Froude says: '_Alone_ of all the English commanders he expressed remorse at the work.' Well, if the creatures they destroyed were horses, dogs, or cats, we should expect a man of ordinary human feelings to be shocked at the wholesale butchery.