Note 128 — Chapter XXIV · 1566 AND 1567.

Ware says he bases on Exchequer accounts his estimate of the cost of the wars with Shane O’Neill. ‘It amounted unto 147,407l. over and above the cesses laid on the country, and the damage sustained by the subject; and there were no less than 3,500 of her Majesty’s soldiers slain by Shane and his party during that time, besides what they slew of the Irish and Scots.’ The Four Masters say: ‘Grievous to the race of Owen, son of Nial, was the death of him who was slain, for Shane O’Neill had been their champion in provincial dignity and in time of danger and prowess.’ Campion. Hooker’s Chronicle in Holinshed.