Note 24 — PREFACE.
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Upon two occasions the Earl saved a large party of English from destruction. Macguire, chief of Fermanagh, had given the Lord Deputy three hundred cows to free his country from a sheriff; “after which bargain, the sheriff, one Willis, was let loose upon Fermanagh, leading about some hundreds of women and boys, with a guard of one hundred men, all living upon the spoils of the country.” Macguire, having driven this model of a modern Irish police into a church, was about to put them to the sword, when the Earl of Tyrone interposed his authority. This same Willis was again rescued by Tyrone from an insurrection occasioned by similar circumstances in the O’Donnel’s country.—See Memorial to Queen Elizabeth.