Note 16 — PREFACE.

The credulity of the Irish has ever been their ruin. Some English officers having assured certain Irish chiefs that, upon surrendering themselves to the government, they would obtain their pardon; those chiefs (says Leland) “embraced the counsel, submitted, and consented to attend the Lord Deputy St. Leger to Ireland. But here the only favour granted them was, that they were not brought to immediate execution. They were committed to prison, their lands declared forfeit, and granted to those on whose counsel they had surrendered.”—Hist. of Ireland, v. ii.