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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt:...The Lord Justice and the Earls proceeded With their forces through Tyrone, until they arrived at Loch Feabhail", without opposition or battle. When the Lord Justice was returning, the rest')-_ lution he adopted was, to make peace with O'Neill, and to grant him pardon, and take away»'his own warders from Armagh. He afterwards proceeded with his forces into Tir-Chonaill-Gulban", and left the command of the fortresses colony, now Lough Foyle, situated between the b Tir-Clzonaill-Gulban, i. e. the country of counties of Londonderry and Donegal.-_See Conall Gulban, the son of the Monarch Niall of the Poem on Aileach, printed in the Ordnance the Nine Hostages, and ancestor of the O'Don Memoir of Templemore. nells, O'Dohertys, and other distinguished fami lies of Tirconnell. This name is usually anglicised Tirconnell. To the Queen.-The appearance of O'Neill in London is thus described by Camden in his Annals of the reign of Elizabeth: " A. D. 1562. Ex Hibernia jam venerat Shanus O'NeaJ, ut quod ante annum promiserat, prtestaret, cum securigero Galloglassoruni satellitio, capitibus nudis, crispatis cincinnis dependentibus, camisiis flavis croco, vel humana urina infectis, manicis largioribus, tunieulis brevioribus, et lacernis villosis: quos Angli non minori tunc admiratione, quam hodie Chinenses et Arnericanos, prosequeliantur."-Edition of 1639, p. 69. Campion has the following account of his submission, and conduct on his return home, in his Hiatoire of Ireland, written in 1570-, Dublin edition of 1809, p. 189: ' v " After this usurpation and tyranny, hee was yet perswaded by Melchior Husse, sent unto him from Gerald, Earle of Kildare, to reconcile himselfe to good order,...