Sir Henry offered to spare his life if he could accuse the earl of any crime that might work his overthrow.

He could not, and he was hanged.

In order to settle a dispute between the earl and Sir Nial, the English _protege_ and pretender to the chieftainship, twelve tenants of each were summoned to be examined by the king's officers in the neighbourhood.

'The earl's men were not examined, but locked up in a room; and the vice-governor, upon the false deposition of Sir Nial's men, directed warrants, and sent soldiers to the number of 300, to bring all the earl's tenants unto Sir Nial, to the number of 340 persons, who paid half-a-crown a piece, and 12 d.

for every cow and garron, as a fee unto the captains, whereby they lost their ploughing for the space of twenty-eight days, the soldiers being in the country all the while.
One Captain Henry Vaughan, being sheriff in the year 1605, got a warrant to levy 150 l.