She recommended an ordinary trial for high treason, and if the jury did not do its duty, they might take the shorter way.
She wished for no more torture, but 'for what was past her majesty accepted in good part their careful travail, and greatly commended their doings.' The Irish judges had repeatedly decided that there was no case against Archbishop Hurley; but on June 19, 1584, Loftus and Wallop wrote to Walsingham, 'We gave warrant to the knight-marshal to do execution upon him, which accordingly was performed, and thereby the realm rid of a most pestilent member.'[1] [Footnote 1: Froude, vol.xi.

p.264.] This was the last act of these two lords justices.

Sir John Perrot, the new viceroy, made a speech which sent a ray of hope athwart the national gloom.

It was simply that the people might thenceforth expect a little justice and protection.

He told the natives that 'as natural-born subjects of her majesty she loved them as her own people.
He wished to be suppressed and universally abolished throughout the realm the name of a churle and the crushing of a churle; affirming that, however the former barbarous times had desired it and nourished it, yet he held it tyrannous both in name and manner, and therefore would extirpate it, and use in place of it the titles used in England, namely, husbandmen, franklins or yeomen.' 'This was so plausible,' wrote Sir G.Fenton, 'that it was carried throughout the whole realm, in less time than might be thought credible, if expressed.' The extirpation of the Munster Geraldines, in the right line, according to the theory of the 'Undertakers' and the law of England in general, vested in the queen the 570,000 acres belonging to the late earl.