The chieftain's wife had female attendants with her, and no one was knowingly spared.

The tide being out, a squadron of horse was sent at daybreak over the water into the "Ardes," from which, in a few hours, they returned with 3,000 of Sir Brian's cattle, and with a drove of stud mares, of which the choicest were sent to Fitzwilliam.

Sir Brian himself, his brother, and Lady O'Neill, were carried as prisoners to Dublin, where they were soon after executed.'[1] [Footnote 1: Froude, vol.xi.

p.179.] Essex did not miscalculate the probable effect of this exploit.

It raised him high in the estimation of the Anglo-Irish of the Pale.