M'Sweeny had sheltered him and fed him through the summer, though a large price was set on his head; and when M'Sweeny was gone, killed by an Irish dagger, the earl's turn could not be distant.
Donell M'Donell Moriarty had been received to grace by Ormond, and had promised to deserve his pardon.

This man came to the captain of Castlemayne, gave information of the hiding-place, a band was sent--half-a-dozen English soldiers and a few Irish kerne, who stole in the darkness along the path which followed the stream--the door was dashed in, and the last Earl of Desmond was killed in his bed.
[Footnote 1: Carew Papers; Froude, vol.xi.

p.225.] Ormond had recourse to a horrible device to extinguish the embers of the rebellion.

It was carrying out to a diabolical extent the policy of setting one Irishman against another.

If the terror-stricken wretches hoped for pardon, they must deserve it, by murdering their relations.