ven a full and most interesting account
of this expedition, in a letter to the Roman court. The original has
been printed by Monsignor Moran, in his _Archbishops_, a work which
every reader should possess.

[445] _Dr. Allen_.--He was a medical man, and was killed in an
engagement immediately after the arrival of the expedition.

[446] _Camp_.--Dr. Saunders' letter, Moran's _Archbishops_, p. 202.

[447] _Official_.--Lord Grey says, in his official despatch to the
Queen, dated "From the camp before Smerwick, November 12, 1580:" "I sent
streighte certeyne gentlemen to see their weapons and armouries laid
down, and to guard the munition and victual, then left, from spoil;
_then put in certeyne bandes, who streighte fell to execution. There
were 600 slayn_." After this exploit, "Grey's faith"--_Graia
fides_--became proverbial even on the Continent. Grey appears to have a
touch of the Puritan (by anticipation) in his composition, for we find
him using very unctuous language about one John Cheeke, who "so wrought
in him God's Spirit, plainlie declairing him a child of His elected;"
and he calls the Pope "a detestable shaveling." Raleigh is said to have
had the execution of this butchery; his friend, Spenser, was "not far
off," according to his own account. He has attempted to excuse his
patron, Lord Grey, but his excuse simply shows that the massacre was
reprobated by all persons not destitute of common humanity.

[448] _Castle._--The Four Masters give a detailed account of this
treachery, taken from the life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, which was written
by one of themselves. A copy of this work, in the handwriting of Edward
O'Reilly, is still preserved in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy.

[449] _Him._--This document was written by Captain Lee, and presented to
the Queen in 1594. It is printed in _Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica_, vol.
ii. p. 91.

[450] _Deputy._--Four Masters, vol. vi. p. 1878. The State Papers
clearly prove the Deputy's guilt.

[451] _Hanged_.--It was usual to hang the Franciscans by their own cord,
or to tie them together with their cords and hurl them from the summit
of a tower or from a high rock into the sea.

[452] _Behalf_.--The Four Masters give copious details of this important
engagement, which O'Donovan has supplemented with copious notes, vol.
vi. pp.2061-2075.

[453] _Victories_.--The victory of the Blackwater was hailed with salvos
of artillery from S. Angelo. The Pope and Philip III. o