f Spain
corresponded with O'Neill constantly, the one about the affairs of the
Church, the other with generous offers of assistance. At one time the
Emperor sent him 22,000 crowns of gold.

[454] _Long--Dunboy and other Poems_, by T.D. Sullivan, Esq.

[455] _Place--Hibernia Pacata_, vol. ii. p. 559.

[456] _Life.--Hib. Pac_. vol. ii. p. 578.

[457] _Disaffection_.--Dr. Moran quotes a letter from Dublin, written
26th Feb., 1603, which says that he imparted great edification to the
faithful by his constancy, and that the whole city of Cork accompanied
him with its tears.

[458] _Rebels.--_Commission from the Lord Deputy to Harvey.--See the
document _in extenso, Hib, Pac_. vol ii. p. 447.

[459] _Pain.--Hib. Pac_. p. 659.

[460] _Followers_.--The father and mother of the celebrated historian,
O'Sullivan were amongst the number of those who reached Leitrim in
safety. Philip, the author, had been sent to Spain while a boy in 1602,
for his education: the whole family joined him there soon after. Dr.
O'Donovan is not correct in his genealogy. It is well known that the
real representative of the family is Murtough O'Sullivan, Esq., of
Clohina, co. Cork.

[461] _Presinct.--History of the University of Dublin_, by W.B.S.
Taylor. London, 1845.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Accession of King James--Joy of the Irish Catholics--Their
Disappointment--Bishops, Priests, and Laity imprisoned for the
Faith--Paul V. encourages the Catholics to Constancy--Plot to entrap
O'Neill and O'Donnell--Flight of the Earls--Ulster is left to the Mercy
of the English Nation--The Plantation commences--Chichester's
Parliament, and how he obtained Members--Death of James I., and
Accession of Charles--The Hopes of the Catholics are raised again--They
offer a large sum of Money to obtain "Graces"--It is accepted, and the
"Graces" are treacherously refused--The Plantation of Connaught--How
Obedience was enforced and Resistance punished--Conspiracy to seize
Dublin--Sir Phelim O'Neill-Massacre of Island Magee.

[A.D. 1605-1642.]

Great was the joy of the Irish nation when James the First of England
and the Sixth of Scotland ascended the throne. The people supposed him
to be a Catholic in heart, and a prince in feeling. They should have
judged less favourably of one who could see his mother sacrificed
without making one real effort to avert her doom. His weakness,
obstinacy, and duplicity, helped to prepare the way for the terrible
convulsion of Engl