594 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [en. 62.
- all Brehones, carraghs, bards, rhymers, friars, monks,
Jesuits, pardoners, nuns, and such like should be exe- cuted by martial law ; ' and that with this clean sweep the work of death might end, and a new era be ushered in, with universities and schools, a fixed police, and agriculture, and good government. 1 The destiny of the country however was too strong for these excellent intentions. The people declined to separate their fortunes from those of their priests and poets, and they all drifted on together through blood and misery. !,j8i. On the return of the Deputy from Smer- January. ^^ Rildare an a the Baron of Delvin were arrested and thrown into the castle. Clanrickard's sons lay out among the hills in Connemara and could not be caught, but their cousin Oliver Burke was brought into Limerick, put on his trial, and declining to plead, was pressed to death with the peine forte et dure. 2 No second good fortune came to the Wicklow insurgents. Feagh MacHugh O'Toole and his brother were killed in an incursion into the Pale. Their wounded followers were tracked by their blood into the mountains and killed also. Grarrot O'Toole, and two Eustaces, brothers of Baltinglass, and many of their companions were overtaken a few weeks later, and their heads forwarded 1 Discourse for the Reformation of Ireland, 1583 : Carew Papers. 2 Grey describing bis execution, adds tenderly, ' the which, as I am informed, he accepted with great humility, acknowledging his evil life to have deserved a worse death.' Grey to Walsingbam, January 15, 1581-2 MSS. Ireland.
