Note 22 — PREFACE.
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O’Connor Sligo resided some time in the court of Elizabeth, where he was flattered up to his bent, though not into a permanent absenteeship. He returned to Ireland in 1596, after obtaining a grant to secure him in the possession of his own property; in gratitude for which “he was extremely active in her (the Queen’s) favour, and gained back, partly by menace and partly by cunning, many of the revolted clans.” The celebrated O’Donnel of Tirconnel, hearing of O’Connor’s desertion from the common cause, marched with an army to bring him to obedience: and, in spite of the assistance of Sir Conyers Clifford and Lord Mayo, he ravaged and destroyed O’Connor’s country.