! 5 So] THE DESMOND REBELLION. murderers were given up. The proud lady's spirit was not yet subdued. She sent Pelham's letter to Sanders, ' scorning the matter/ Had the English heen able to follow up their success on the spot, they might perhaps have stamped out the fire, or taken Desmond and the Countess prisoners. They were stopped short however for a time by want of money to pay their soldiers. Elizabeth, conceiving that she was unfairly dealt with in the accounts, had again suspended a second instal- ment of the promised remittances ; a pause followed, and gave the Geraldines time to recover breath. The fleet remained on the coast ; as long as it stayed there no foreign transports would venture near ; and Malby, who had been in Clare on the opposite bank of the Shannon during the operations at Carrigafoyle, found leisure to make a circuit through Mayo. 1 The rebels dispersed through the forest, and scattered in parties over the open country of Cork and Tipperary, murdering English settlers, or any of their own people whq had adopted English habits. The lords and gen- tlemen of Munster looked on approvingly, especially when any one was killed who had dared to occupy con- fiscated lands. ' The young horse,' wrote Justice Meagh, 1 Pictures of quiet industry ap- pear unexpectedly amidst the horri- ble scenes which chiefly make up Irish history. Malby in the course of his progress went to a place called Burrishoole, on the shores of Clew Bay, now black desolate moor and mountain, at that time clothed with a magnificent forest, and possessing rich iron mines ; ' the best fishing place for herring and salmon in Ire- land ; where a ship of 500 tons could ride close to the shore, and fre- quented annually by fifty Devonshire fishing smacks, the owners of which payed tribute to the O'Malleys.' Narrative by Sir N. Malby, April, 1580: MSS. Ireland,
