OF ROBERT EARL OF ESSEX. 313 



that he the said Owny might frame his course 

 accordingly. Which letter, with farther instruc 

 tions to the same efFect, was in the presence of 

 Knowd, delivered to Turlagh Macdauy, a man of 

 trust with Owny, who brought an answer from Ty 

 rone : the contents whereof were, That the earl of 

 Essex had agreed to take his part, and that they 

 should aid him towards the conquest of England. 



Besides, very certain it is, and testified by divers 

 credible persons, that immediately upon this parley, 

 there did fly abroad, as sparkles of this fire, which it 

 did not concern Tyrone so much to keep secret, as 

 it did Essex, a general and received opinion, that 

 went up and down in the mouths both of the better 

 and meaner sort of rebels ; That the Earl of Essex 

 was theirs, and they his ; and that he would never 

 leave the one sword, meaning that of Ireland, till he 

 had gotten the other in England ; and that he would 

 bring them to serve, where they should have other 

 manner of booties than cows ; and the like speeches. 

 And Thomas Lee himself, who had been, as was 

 before declared, with Tyrone two or three days, 

 upon my lord s sending, and had sounded him, hath 

 left it confessed under his hand ; That he knew the 

 earl of Essex and Tyrone to be one, and to run the 

 same courses. 



And certain it is also, that immediately upon 

 that parley, Tyrone grew into a strange and unwont 

 ed pride, and appointed his progresses and visitations 

 to receive congratulations and homages from his con- 



