parliamentary robes should be bestowed upon him. He describes O'Donnell's dress thus:-" A coat of crimson velvet with aiglets of gold, twenty or thirty pair; over that a great double cloak of crimson satin, bordered with black velvet, and in his bonnet a feather set full of aiglets of gold."

It may not be out of place here to remark also, that Moryson himself, incidentally, affords us a clue to the skill of the native Irish in agriculture, in the following passage, where he laments the necessity of destroying the corn of the O'Mores in Leix, in the year 1600::

"But the best service at that time done was the killing of Owney Mac Rory [O'More], a bloody and bold young man, who lately had taken the Earl of Ormond prisoner, and had made great stirs in Munster. He was the chief of the O'More's sept in Leix, and by his death (17th of August, 1600) they were so discouraged, that they never after held up their heads. Also a bold bloody Rebel Callogh Mac Walter [O'More], was at the same time killed; besides, that his Lordship's staying in Leix till the 23rd of August, did many other ways weaken them—for during that time, he fought almost every day with them, and as often did beat them.

"Our Captains, and by their example (for it was otherwise painful), the common soldiers did cut down with their swords all the rebels' corn, to the value of £10,000, and upwards, the only means by which they were to live, and to keep their Bonnaghts (or hired Soldiers). It seemed incredible that by so barbarous inhabitants the ground should be so manured, the fields so orderly fenced, the towns so frequently inhabited, and the highways and paths so well beaten, as the Lord Deputy here found them. The reason whereof was, that the Queen's forces, during these wars, never till then came amongst them."