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MacCARTHY MORE;
on,
THE FORTUNES OF AN miSII CHIEF
IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZA.BETH.
CHAPTER I.
Is the year 1588 the fair province of Munster pre-
sented, for the most part, one wide scene of desola-
tion ; the eighv'. ydars' rebellion of Gerald, sixteenth
Earl of Desmond, had been at length suppressed, at
enormous cost to the Government, and the gory
head of the aged earl was bleaching on a spike on
London Bridge, With the exception of the very few
chieftams of note who had stood by the Queen's
Government during the rebellion, all the new and
old English, as well as the native Irish lords, had seen
their countries lirst ravaged with fire and sword,
then handed over by royal grants and letters patent
to the officers of the Queen's army. Over and above
this wholesale transfer of entire districts to the great
adventurers whose names are but too familiar to rea4*
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