MacCarthy more, or, The fortunes of an Irish chief in the reign of ...

Thb Fortunes of an Irish Chief. 41
criAPT3i:R III.
Whilst tlie Lady of Clancartliy, ard her fair daugh-
ter, and all the friends of their house, were bewailing
the Earl's infatuation in choosing such a husband
for his only child, and devising means of averting
the blow that oeemed ready to fiiU on the once royal
sept, a gentleman of the MacCarthys, coming direct
from London, where he had been for some time past,
made his appearance before Sir Thomas Norreys,
the Queen's Vice-President of Munster, in the an-
cient City of Limerick, to lodge certain complaints
against the Earl of Clancarthy.
This gentleman's name was Florence MacCarthy.
He was son of the late, and nephew of the present,
MacCarthy Reagh, the second in rank of the three
great chiefs of the Clan Carthy. Although still
ycang, he had served in the late war against the
it-bci Earl of Desmond, and like his father before
birt\, Sir Donald MacCarthy Reagh, his character for
loyally was above susjiicion. Much of his time had
of lalu beei: spent at the English Court, and, when in
Ireland, he wat. a frequent visitor to the English offi-
cials in Cork and Limerick. He was, therefore, well
and no less favorably known to Sir Thomas Norreys,
A^ho received him with the frank courtesy of the gal-
lant soldier he was. There were worse men amonijst
FIi2:y.beth's officers in Ireland than stout Sir Thomas
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