The wandering adventurer at first demanded nothing less than an earldom.
After some haggling he consented to sell the love of a whole people, and his pretensions to regal dignity, for a pension of five hundred pounds a year.

Yet the spell which bound his followers to hire was not altogether broken.

Some enthusiasts from Ulster were willing to fight under the O'Donnel against their own language and their own religion.

With a small body of these devoted adherents, he joined a division of the English army, and on several occasions did useful service to William.

[110] When it was known that no succour was to be expected from the hero whose advent had been foretold by so many seers, the Irish who were shut up in Galway lost all heart.