Chapter XLV: Government of Russell, 1594-1597

Russell and Tyrone 242
Russell relieves Enniskillen 244
Tyrone generally suspected 245
The Wicklow Highlanders--Walter Reagh 246
Feagh MacHugh O'Byrne 247
Recruiting for Irish service 248
Soldiers and amateurs 250
Sir John Norris 251
The Irish retake Enniskillen 252
Murder of George Bingham 253
Tyrone proclaimed traitor 254
Quarrels of Norris and Russell 255
Ormonde and Tyrone 255
Bingham, Tyrone, and Norris 256
Death of Tirlogh Luineach O'Neill 258
Tyrone's dealings with Spain 258
A truce 259
O'Donnell overruns Connaught 260
Liberty of conscience 261
Confusion in Connaught 263
Elizabeth on the dispensing power 264
Norris and Russell 265
Story of the Spanish letter 267
Spaniards in Ulster 268
Bingham in Connaught 268
Bingham leaves Ireland 271
Crusade against English Protestants 272
Disorderly soldiers 273
Death of Feagh MacHugh 274
Dissensions between Norris and Russell 276
Bingham in disgrace 278

CHAPTER XLVI.

GOVERNMENT OF LORD BURGH, 1597.

Last acts of Russell 280
Norris and Burgh 282
Burgh attacks Tyrone 283
Failure of Clifford at Ballyshannon 285
Gallant defence of Blackwater fort 286
Death of Burgh 287
Death of Norris 288
Belfast in 1597 289
Disaster at Carrickfergus 290
Tyrone and Ormonde 291
Brigandage in Munster 292
Florence MacCarthy 293

CHAPTER XLVII.

GENERAL RISING UNDER TYRONE, 1598-1599.

Bacon and Essex 294
The Blackwater fort 295
Battle of the Yellow Ford 297
Panic in Dublin 300
The Munster settlement destroyed 301
The Sugane Earl of Desmond 302
Spenser, Raleigh, and others 305
The native gentry and Tyrone 307
Religious animosity 308
Weakness of the Government 309
O'Donnell in Clare 310
Tyrone in Munster 311